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You are watching a film in which two men are having a fight. They hit one another hard. At the start they only fight with their fists. But soon they begin hitting one another over the heads with chairs. And so it goes on until one of the men crashes (撞击) through a window and falls thirty feet to the ground below. He is dead！Of course he isn't really dead. With any luck he isn't even hurt. Why? Because the men who fall out of high windows or jump from fast moving trains, who crash cars or even catch fire, are professionals (专业人士). They do this for a living. These men are called stuntmen. That is to say, they perform tricks. There are two sides to their work. They actually do most of the things you see on the screen. For example, they fall from a high building. However, they do not fall on to hard ground but on to empty cardboard boxes covered with a mattress (床垫). Again, when they hit one another with chairs, the chairs are made of soft wood and when they crash through windows, the glass is made of sugar! But although their work depends on trick of this sort, it also requires a high degree of skill and training. Often a stuntman' s success depends on careful timing. For example, when he is "blown up" in a battle scene, he has to jump out of the way of the explosion just at the right moment.

Naturally stuntmen are well paid for their work, but they lead dangerous lives. They often get seriously injured, and sometimes killed. A Norwegian stuntman, for example, skied over the edge of a cliff a thousand feet high. His parachute (降落伞) failed to open, and he was killed. In spite of all the risks, this is no longer a profession for men only. Men no longer dress up as women when actresses have to perform some dangerous action, for nowadays there are stunt girls too!

Stuntmen are those who ______.

A. often dress up as women

B. prefer to lead dangerous lives

C. often perform seemingly (表面上) dangerous actions

D. often fight each other for their lives

Stuntmen earn their living by ______.

A. playing their dirty tricks B. selling their special skills

C. jumping out of high windows D. jumping from fast moving trains

When a stuntman falls from a high building, ______.

A. he needs little protection

B. he will be covered with a mattress

C. his life is endangered

D. his safety is generally all right

Which of the following is the main factor (因素) of a successful performance?

A. Strength. B. Exactness. C. Speed. D. Power.

What can be inferred from the author' s example of the Norwegian stuntman?

A. Sometimes an accident can occur to a stuntman.

B. The percentage of serious accidents is high.

C. Parachutes must be of good quality.

D. The cliff is too high.

I’m sure many of you have seen Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Multiplicity, or many of the other movies that describe cloning. Most of what you see in these movies is false. What you don’t know is that cloning could be dangerous, to the clone and to our society as a whole. I think human cloning is wrong mainly for four reasons.

What about identity? Humans are promised the right to their own personalities. What would happen if we ignore those rights by giving them someone else’s genetic identity? True, Cloning may prevent people from possessing their identities.

Also, these is a large power struggle here. Cloning means a degree of power and controls over another person’s physical identity and that ignores their rights and their only personalities. The person doing the cloning would have more power than any parent would have.

Cloning would also deal with killing embryos (胚胎). You might not have known, but Dolly, the sheep that was cloned in 1996, was one of over 200 sheep embryos and hers was the only embryo that survived. The rest died or were thrown away. Imagine if the failure rate was that high when we started to clone humans. cloning means running the risk of wasting too much effort

Cloning someone, at this present time, would be extremely dangerous to the birth mother and the clone. In studies done on cows, 4 out of 12 birth mothers died. There is a very high failure rate, which is shown in the cloning of Dolly. Even if you had a few good embryos, failures have been noticeable in animal tests.

So, should we work ahead in the world of cloning? I say no. the risks are greater than the benefits. It’s dangerous to the clone and to the birth mother. We would be killing human lives in the process. It would also be a violation(侵害) of the clone’s right to its own genetic identity and personality.

1.The author thinks human cloning is wrong mainly for ______ reasons.

A．4

B．3

C． 2

D．5

2.According to the article, what is the author’s opinion about identity?

A．Cloning itself gives parents great power over identity.

B．People’s identity is completely determined by their genes.

C．Government has the rights to confirm people’s identities.

D．Cloning may prevent people from possessing their identities.

3.According to Paragraph 4 ,which is right ? ____.

A．human cloning is much more difficult than animal cloning

B．there are 200 sheep successfully cloned.

C．cloning means running the risk of wasting too much effort

D．numbers of baby animals are likely to be created by cloning

4.Why does the author mention some movies in the first paragraph?

A．To introduce the topic of the article.

B．To present his idea about the movies.

C．To state the conclusion first.

D．To make the article unusual.

5. What is the best title of the passage?

A．What Is Human Cloning

B．Human Cloning Is Wrong

C．How Does Human Cloning Happen

D．Discussion On Human Cloning

Joe came to New York from the Middle West, dreaming about painting. Delia came to New York from the South, dreaming about music. Joe and Delia met in a studio. Before long they were good friends and got married.

They had only a small flat to live in , but they were happy. They loved each other, and they were both interested in art. Everything was fine until one day they found they had spent all their money.

Delia decided to give music lessons. One afternoon she said to her husband:

“Joe, I’ve found a pupil, a general’s daughter. She is a sweet girl. I’m to give three lessons a week and get $5 a lesson.”

But Joe was not glad.

“But how about me?” he said.” Do you think I’m going to watch you work while I play with my art? No, I want to earn some money too.”

“Joe, you are silly,” said Delia. “You must keep at your studies. We can live quite happily on $15 a week.”

“Well, perhaps I can sell some of my pictures,” said Joe.

Every day they parted in the morning and met in the evening. A week passed and Delia brought home fifteen dollars, but she looked a little tired.

“Clementina sometimes gets on my nerves. I’m afraid she doesn’t practice enough. But the general is the oldest man! I wish you could know him, Joe.”

And then Joe took eighteen dollars out of his pocket.

“I’ve sold one of my pictures to a man from Peoria,” he said, “and he has ordered another.”

“I’m so glad,” said Delia. “Thirty-three dollars! We never had so much to spend before. We’ll have a good supper tonight.”

Next week Joe came home and put another eighteen dollars on the table. In half an hour Delia came, her right hand in a bandage.

“What’s the matter with your hand?” said Joe. Delia laughed and said:

“Oh, a funny thing happened! Clemantina gave me a plate of soup and spilled some of it on my hand. She was very sorry for it. And so was the old general. But why are you looking at me like that, Joe?”

“What time this afternoon did you burn your hand, Delia?”

“Five o’clock, I think. The iron-I mean the soup-was ready about five, Why?”

“Delia, come and sit here,” said Joe. He drew her to the couch and sat beside her.

“What do you do every day, Delia? Do you really give music lesson? Tell me the truth.”

She began to cry.

“I couldn’t get any pupils,” she said, “So I got a place in a laundry ironing shirts. This afternoon a girl accidentally set down an iron on my hand and I got a bad burn. But tell me, Joe, how did you guess that I wasn’t giving music lessons?”

“It’s very simple,” said Joe. “I knew all about your bandages because I had to send them upstairs to a girl in the laundry who had an accident with a hot iron. You see, I work in the engine-room of the same laundry where you work.”

“And your pictures? Did you sell any to that man from Peoria?”

“Well, your general with his Clemantina is an invention, and so is my man from Peoria.”

And then they both laughed.

1.To support the family, Delia worked as .

A. a tutor B. a music teacher

C. an artist D. a laundry assistant

2.It happened that .

A. a man from Peoria liked Joe’s pictures

B. Delia earned $15 dollars a week easily

C. the couple worked at the same laundry

D. Clemantina and the general were kind

3.Who hurt Delia’s hand?

A. The general B. Clemantina C. Herself D. A girl

4.We can infer from the underlined sentence that .

A. Clemantina was an invention of the general

B. Clemantina was an invention of the man from Peoria

C. there were no such men as the general, Clemantina and the man from Peoria

D. the general, Clemantina and the man from Peoria were the couple’s clients

5.The couple’s attitude towards each other is .

A. faithful B. honest

C. ashamed D. heartbreaking

6.Which do you think is the best title of the story?

A. A service of love B. A story of Joe and Delia

C. Lies and truth D. Servants of love

第二部分，完形填空（共20小题，每题1.5分共30分）

There was a little boy 21 his grandparents on their farm.He was given a slingshot（弹弓）to play with， out in the woods.He 22 in the woods,but he could never hit the target.Getting a little 23 ,he headed back to dinner.Then,he saw Grandma’s pet duck,so he let fly,hit the duck square in the head,and 24 it.He was shocked and upset.In 25 ,he hid the dead duck in the woodpile, 26 to see his sister watching.Sally had seen it all, 27 she said nothing.

28 lunch that day grandma said,“Sally,let’s wash the dishes.”

But Sally said,“Grandma,Johnny told me he wanted to 29 in the kitchen today,didn’t you Johnny?”And then she 30 to him,“Remember,the duck?”So Johnny did the dishes.

Later Grandpa asked if 31 wanted to go fishing,and Grandma said,“I’m sorry but I need Sally to help make supper.”

But Sally 32 and said,“Well,that’s 33 because Johnny told me he wanted to help.”

34 the duck,Johnny had to stay and Sally went fishing.

After several days of Johnny doing both his 35 and Sally’s,he finally couldn’t 36

it any longer.He came to Grandma and told her that he killed the duck.She 37 down,gave him a hug（拥抱）,and said,“Sweetheart,I know.You see,I was standing at the window and I 38 the whole thing.But because I love you,I 39 you.But I was just 40 how long would you let Sally make a slave of you.”

21.A.helping B.visiting C.tending D.seeking

22.A.practised B.played C.worked D.hunted

23.A.anxious B.tired C.pleased D.discouraged

24.A.caught B.injured C.killed D.seized

25.A.surprise B.disappointment C.anger D.horror

26.A.only B.so as C.in order D.expecting

27.A.so B.and C.instead D.but

28.A.At B.After C.Before D.Cooking

29.A.work B.stay C.help D.get

30.A.called B.whispered C.nodded D.signed

31.A.the children B.Sally C.Johnny D.Grandma

32.A.sighed B.agreed C.objected D.smiled

33.A.easy B.all right C.fine D.impossible

34.A.Searching B.Hiding C.Remembering D.Regretting

35.A.homework B.housework C.farm work D.cooking

36.A.stand B.change C.like D.cover

37.A.sat B.went C.lay D.knelt

38.A.know B.heard C.saw D.understand

39A.missed B.forgave C.congratulated D.punished

40.A.wondering B.saying C.imaging D.considering

（ )2. Let's look at the bag. Can you see _____“s”on the corner of_____ bag?

A. a, a B. a, the C. an, a D. an, the

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