I love science and science fiction. Like many science fiction fans, I am fascinated by the possibility of time travel. However, one must combine romance with reasoning and look into the chances of time travel critically.
First of all, we must remember the whole universe is in motion. If we want to go back to yesterday, our "time machine" has to move back in time and space. If someone claimed he was at home when he suddenly travelled 200 years back in time, he either had an illusion or made the story up. Two hundred years ago, Earth was in a different place in space, so how can you travel back 200 years without moving in space? Don't get me wrong. I am not knocking the genius of science fiction writers. H.G. Wells's "The Time Machine" is a great work of fiction, but that’s all. I have read many other time travelling science fiction stories since reading H.G. Wells, but none address this problem of displacement.
My own argument for the impossibility of time travel is that physical states of the past no longer exist and those of the future are not here yet. To be able to move back and forth in time requires everything that has happened, is happening, and will happen everywhere in the whole universe at every single moment in time-past, present, and future-to be stored as a "reality" somewhere-like the save game file of a computer game that contains every single byte of information of the game at the point it was saved, but you would need an almost extremely large file and almost extremely many of them-so it can be re-entered and communicated with, and not just light signals for viewing. To me, I don’t buy it.
【小题1】Which of the following can be the best title?

A.How to make time travel possible?
B.Why am I fascinated by time travel?
C.Why do I think time travel is not possible?
D.How to explain the possibility of time travel?
【小题2】What’s the meaning of the underlined word “illusion”?
A.successB.dreamC.switchD.support
【小题3】 According to the author, which of the following is RIGHT?
A.We can go back to the past by time travel.
B.People can travel to the future by moving in space.
C.“The Time Machine” is nothing more than a science fiction.
D.Everything that happened, is happening and will happen can be stored somewhere.
【小题4】In the author’s opinion, time travel might be possible if                            .
A.people could combine romance with reasoning
B.people could stop the movement of the whole universe
C.people could use time machine under the instruction of H.G. Wells
D.people could “save” everything in the past, present and future in a certain space

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,并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确,拼写正确。

One day, there was an elder couple buying fish from me, all of w____ happened was really very special. The Gentleman carried a basket ____ his elbow(肘部) , when the couple were near a pond to look at the fish, there was a pure silver long fin Koi(锦鲤) which about six inches jumped into the basket."Wha----" Their ____(吃惊的) sound drew my eyes. I have worked with fish for a long time, but it ____ the first time I had seen a fish jump up into customer's basket. "You are lucky!" I said to them."Come on, come on, I buy, I buy him!" I looked at them, the couple are so h____and I went to serve them."Anything else?" I asked."Yes, I want to find a partner for her." The gentleman was humorous. They were looking for another fish through the fish ____(池塘) one by one, I brought a net and the fish bag f____ them, the fish were always swimming towards us and asking for food in every pond. "What’s the matter with the fish?" The lady asked."They are hungry." I said."No, not hungry, they knew us and greeting us." The gentleman said."Yes, definitely!" I said. We stopped for a ____ minutes by a fish pond."How about that fish?" The lady pointed ___ a colourful Sarasa(红白色相间的印花布)Comet."It looks so beautiful!" The gentleman and I said same words."I want to buy it b____ she looked at me. You see, she still looked at me, I’ll buy her. "The couple were happy, I was happy too, the fish will be happy in its new home.

 

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第四部分写作(共两节,满分35分)

第一节对话填空(共10小;每小题1分,满分10分)

阅读下面对话,掌握其大意,并根据所给字母的提示,在标有题号的右边横线上写出一个英语单词的完整、正确形式,使对话通顺。

M: You are a stamp-collector, aren't you?

W: I particularly like this h   76   .                               76.          

I have collected stamps for more than nine years.

M: Nine years? That's a   77 ! How did you keep                    77.          

this hobby for such a long time? I u  78      to collect stamps       78.          

when I was in high school. But soon I felt b   79                    79.          

and then stop the hobby.

W: How did you collect stamps t   80  ?                          80.          

M: Well, I bought new issues at the post office

and put them into my stamp a   81  . How about you?              81.          

W: I narrow down my collection to one t   82  , that is,              82.          

Chinese Characters. I collect Chinese and f   83   stamps.           83.          

W: That sounds e   84  .                                       84.          

M: Yes, b   85  , I also take part in stamp exhibitions.                85.       

 

 

I needed to buy a digital camera, one that was simply good at taking good snaps (快照), maybe occasionally for magazines. Being the cautious type, I fancied a reliable brand. So I went on the net, spent 15 minutes reading product reviews on good websites, wrote down the names of three top recommendations and headed for my nearest big friendly camera store. There in the cupboard was one of the cameras on my list. And it was on special offer. Oh joy. I pointed at it and asked an assistant, “Can I have one of those?” He looked perturbed (不安).“Do you want to try it first?" he said. It didn't quite sound like a question. "Do I need to?" I replied. "There's nothing wrong with it?" This made him look a bit insulted and I started to feel bad. "No, no. But you should try it," he said encouragingly." Compare it with the others. "

     I looked across at the others: shelves of similar cameras placed along the wall, offering a wide range of slightly different prices and discounts, with each company selling a range of models based around the same basic box. With so many models to choose from, it seemed that I would have to spend hours weighing X against Y, always trying to take Z and possibly H into account at the same time. But when I had finished, I would still have only the same two certainties that I had entered the store with: first, soon after I carried my new camera out of the shop, it would be worth half what I paid for it; and second, my wonderful camera would very quickly be replaced by a new model.

     But something in the human soul whispers that you can beat these traps by making the right choice, the clever choice, the wise choice. In the end, I agreed to try the model I had chosen. The assistant seemed a sincere man. So I let him take out my chosen camera from the cupboard, show how it took excellent pictures of my fellow shoppers... and when he started to introduce the special features, I interrupted to ask whether I needed to buy a carry-case and a memory card as well.

      Why do we think that new options (选择) still offer us anything new? Perhaps it is because they offer an opportunity to avoid facing the fact that our real choices in this culture are far more limited than we would like to imagine.

1. The shop assistant insisted that the writer should __ .

     A. try the camera to see if there was anything wrong with it

     B. compare the camera he had chosen with the others

     C. get more information about different companies

     D. trust him and stop asking questions

2. What does the writer mean by "it would be worth half what I paid for it"  (Paragraph 2) ?

     A. He should get a 50% discount.

     B. The price of the camera was unreasonably high.

     C. The quality of the camera was not good.

     D. The camera would soon fall in value.

3. The writer decided to try the model he had chosen because he __ .

     A. knew very little about it

     B. didn't trust the shop assistant

     C. wanted to make sure the one he chose would be the best

     D. had a special interest in taking pictures of his fellow shoppers

4. It can be inferred from the passage that in the writer's opinion, __

     A. people waste too much money on cameras

     B. cameras have become an important part of our daily life

     C. we don't actually need so many choices when buying a product

     D. famous companies care more about profit than quality

 

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