单词拼写（共10小题；每小题0.5分，满分5分）

根据首字母或中文提示，结合句意，写出下列句中所缺单词。

71.In my opinion, trousers made by hand are  _________(优于)　to those made by machines.

72.New digital mobile phones produce less radiation, but that does not n_________ mean that they should be used without caution.

73.The medicine is considered to be the most useful medicine in c____________ society.

74.Some people are a_________ to drugs so much that they sometimes rob banks of money to buy drugs.

75.Many people don’t believe him and they are even s_________ of what he has really achieved in science.

76.The farmer had the workers build a kitchen _______ to the main building.(依附于---)

77.At Christmas, she and her husband went travelling s________---She went to France,while her husband went to Tibet.

78.P________,as well as traffic, must obey the traffic rules.

79.In old days, society was p___________ against women.

80.Nathan Hale told the workers not to waste much time ___________him.(悼念)

阅读理解

The Pentagon

五角大楼

    美国号称世界头号军事大国，其武力干涉几乎渗透到全球，有人开玩笑说：“只要五角大楼打个喷嚏，整个地球都会震动。”五角大楼是什么? 让我们揭开它神秘的面纱，好好地认识一下这座建筑的运作职能吧。

    The Pentagon，or the headquarters of the US Department of Defense，is one of the largest office buildings in the world，taking up a total land of 583 acres．The five-sided structure itself occupies an area of 29 acres．Each of its five outside wails is 921 feet long．It has three times the floor space as the Empire State Building or half again as much space as either of the New York's World Trade Center towers．

    Working inside this huge building are over 25 000 employees，one half of them being civilians and the other half members of the U．S． armed forces．During the last year of the Second World War there were 37 000 people，both military and civilian，working inside the Pentagon．In the Korean and Vietnam War periods，31 000．The employees are scattered among hundreds of offices that occupy a floor space of 3705793 square feet．

While inside the building they tell time by 4 200 clocks，drink from 685 water fountains，utilize 280 rest rooms，consume 30 000 cups of coffee，6 000 tins of milk and 5 000 bottles of soft drinks of various kinds every day，with a total staff of 600 persons preparing and serving food and drinks to the Pentagon employees，daily．

    Notes

    Pentagon n．五边形；五角大楼　　  civilian n．平民

    military n．军人　　　　　　　　  scatter v．分散

    utilize v．利用；应用　　　　　　 consume v．消耗

    Comprehension question

The building is called “the Pentagon ”because________．

A．it is the largest building in the world

B．it lies in the U．S．A．

C．it has five sides

  D．it is a secret place