完型填空。从题后所给的A.B.C.D四个选项中选出符合题意的最佳选项。

Long ago there was a poor farmer in Russia. He had been very 1__ with everything he had. However, when he found his elder brother was __2__ than him, he felt disappointed. So he 3__ hard about how he could also be richer. Finally he got an idea. He started to spend less money on food and clothes to __4___ some money to buy more land. Once he had enough money, he started __5_for land.

He6__ that on the neighboring land, there were some nomads living there. He bought some gifts and went to ___7_ their head. He presented the gifts to the head and told him the 8__ of his visit. The head welcomed him, accepted the gifts and agreed to his 9_ to get the land. The head told him that he could have the land _10__ giving him anything. He can take as much land as he could _11 by walking through the land before sunset. He should start in the morning and whatever distance he could travel during the 12_____, he could have it.

The farmer became very 13___when he heard this offer. Now he could have lots of _14__ without paying anything. He came __15 the next morning and started running, not walking, 16_ he could cover the largest area. To reach his goal, he neither ate food, nor drank water, nor had any rest. He just continued___17_. Without eating, or drinking, or resting he just got very 18__.When he came back to the head in the evening, he 19__ right on the spot. Sadly his son buried him in a piece of land about 6×4feet.

Don’t be greedy or you will __20 everything finally.

A Train Floating On Air

A train that floats on air? It's not magic — it's magnets (磁). And it's close to reality.

       In Virginia USA the fall of 2002, a train with no wheels traveled on air and carried college students across their campus. In Japan, a whisper-quiet railway engine hovered and raced at 350 miles per hour using magnets and electricity as the power. And in China, a magnet train line linked Shanghai with nearby Pudong Airport.

These trains use magnetic levitation (悬浮) technology, “maglev” for short. They use the same rules as the magnets you pick up at home or school: opposite poles of magnets attract each other, and like poles repel each other.

How does it work?

Powerful magnets on the bottom of the train repel magnets on the track, which is actually just a magnet-filled guiding way. With a magnetic field of sufficient force, the train will go hovering on air, which seemed impossible to us in the past.

When an electrical current is sent through the track, the train moves. Turn the current backwards and the train slows down.

Maglev doesn't rely on the friction (摩擦力) of wheels on track, so it can climb a much steeper hill than a traditional train. And it can travel easily in snow and ice, something that could bring normal trains to a screaming stop.    

60.   This passage is about __________.

       A. maglev             B. magnets            C. levitation           D. electricity

61.   Which of the following is a repelling action?

       A.                        B.                        C.                        D.

62.   What can we learn from the text?

       A. A magnet-filled guiding way is formed inside a maglev train.

       B. Instead of electricity, magnets are used as the power of a maglev.

       C. Maglev trains can climb hills with the help of magnet wheels.

       D. Electric currents decide the movements of a maglev train. 

63.   What is the difference between a maglev train and an ordinary train?

       A. A maglev train can climb mountains without power while an ordinary one can’t.

       B. A maglev train can travel in college campus while an ordinary train is not allowed.

       C. Travelling without a track, a maglev train is safer and smoother than an ordinary one.

       D. Floating on a track, a maglev train is faster, quieter than an ordinary railway train.

Coffee has a history dating back to at least the 9th century and has been a catalyst for social interaction across cultures and eras. Originally discovered in Ethiopia, coffee beans were brought into the Middle East by Arab traders, spreading to Egypt, Yemen, Persia, Turkey, and North Africa by the 15th century. Muslim merchants eventually brought the beans to the thriving port city of Venice, where they sold them to wealthy Italian buyers. Soon, the Dutch began importing and growing coffee in places like Java and Ceylon (largely through slave labor), and the British East India Trading Company was popularizing the beverage in England. Coffee spread across Europe and even reached America.

Where there has been coffee, there has been the coffeehouse. From the 15th century Middle Eastern establishments where men gathered to listen to music, play chess, and hear recitations from works of literature, to Paris' Cafe le Procope where luminaries of the French Enlightenment such as Voltaire, Rousseau, and Diderot came to enjoy a hot cup of joe, coffeehouses have traditionally served as centers of social interaction, places where people can come to relax, chat, and exchange ideas.

The modern coffee shop is modeled on the espresso and pastry-centered Italian coffeehouses that arose with the establishment of Italian-American immigrant communities in major US cities such as New York City's Little Italy and Greenwich Village, Boston's North End, and San Francisco's North Beach. New York coffee shops were often frequented by the Beats in the 1950's. It wasn't long before Seattle and other parts of the Pacific Northwest were developing coffee shops as part of a thriving counterculture scene. The Seattle-based Starbucks took this model and brought it into mainstream culture.

Although coffeehouses today continue to serve their traditional purpose as lively social hubs in many communities, they have noticeably adapted to the times. Rediscovering their purpose as centers of information exchange and communication, many coffee shops now provide their customers with internet access and newspapers. It has become extremely common to see someone sitting at a Starbucks listening to music or surfing the web on his or her laptop. Coffee stores today also maintain a fairly identifiable, yet unique aesthetic: wooden furniture and plush couches, paintings and murals drawn on walls, and soft-lighting combine to give coffee shops the cozy feeling of a home away from home.

Today, big business retail coffee shops are expanding quickly all over the world. Starbucks alone has stores in over 40 countries and plans to add more. Despite its popularity, Starbucks has been criticized and labeled by many as a blood-sucking corporate machine, driving smaller coffee shops out of business through unfair practices. This has even spawned an anti-corporate coffee counterculture, with those subscribing to this culture boycotting big business coffee chains. Increasingly popular coffee stores such as The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf are also giving Starbucks some stiff competition. In any case, it seems pretty clear that coffee has weaved itself into the fabric of our consumer-oriented culture.

1.

 Which of the following is the correct order of coffee spreading in history?

   ①Egypt    ②America    ③the Middle East    ④Netherlands    ⑤Venice

   A. ①③④②⑤       B. ③①⑤④②              C. ①⑤④③②             D. ③②⑤④①

2.

We can infer from the passage ________.

   A. Starbucks has beaten all the competitors  

B. there are no changes in the development of coffee culture

C. the taste of coffee has changed a lot

D. Starbucks has some effect on the development of coffee culture

3.

The famous coffeehouse “Starbucks” originally come from _______.

   A. Seattle                     B. Ethiopia                          C. Java                                 D. France

4.

Nowadays, if you come to a coffeehouse, you can _______.

   A. play chess with other customers                   

B. enjoy delicious dishes from South America

   C. surf the internet                                                 

D. watch a TV play

完形填空（共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分）

从A.B.C.D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

    In the past, man did not have to think about the protection of his environment．There were few people on the earth, and natural resources seemed to be   31   ．

    Today things are   32   , the world has become too   33   ．We are using up our natural resources too quickly and at the same time we are   34   our environment with dangerous chemicals．If we continue to do this, human life on the earth   35   survive．

    Everyone   36   today that if too many fishes are taken from the sea, there will soon be none left． Yet, with modern fishing   37    , more and more fishes are caught．We know that if too many trees are cut down,   38    will disappear and nothing will grow on the earth．Yet we __39   to use bigger and more powerful machines to    40    more and more trees．

    We realize that if rivers are polluted with waste products from factories, fish will die． 41  , in most countries wastes are   42   put into rivers or into the sea, and there are   43   laws to stop this．

    We know, too, that if the   44   of the world continues to rise at the present rate , in a few years there will not be enough   45   ．What can we do to solve these problems?

    If we eat more vegetables and less   46   ,there will be more food available for everyone．Land that is used to grow crops   47   five times more people than land where animals are kept．

    Our natural resources will    48    longer if we learn to recyclethem．

    The world population will not rise so quickly if people use modern methods of birth  49  ．

    Finally, if we educate people to think about the problems, we shall have a better and cleaner   50    in the future．

1.A．beautiful          B．unlimited        C．unusual          D．valuable

2.A．common             B．the same         C．changeable       D．different

3.A．crowded            B．small            C．dirty            D．busy

4.A．protecting         B．saving           C．polluting        D．fighting

5.A．may not            B．will not         C．shall not        D．could not

6.A．wonders            B．realizes         C．considers        D．discovers

7.A．poles              B．boats            C．methods          D．ideas

8.A．mountains          B．the sea          C．trees            D．forests

9.A．continue           B．have             C．ought            D．go on

10.A．grow              B．plant            C．save             D．cut down

11.A．Thus              B．However          C．Generally        D．Therefore

12.A．still             B．even             C．also             D．certainly

13.A．many              B．none             C．some             D．few

14.A．production        B．pollution        C．population       D．development

15.A．houses            B．vegetables       C．food             D．places

16.A．fruit             B．meat             C．fish             D．grain

17.A．feeds             B．increases        C．supplies         D．helps

18.A．use               B．stay             C．keep             D．last

19.A．control           B．born             C．plan             D．pay

20.A．nature            B．sea              C．planet           D．forest

It is difficult for doctors to help a person with a damaged brain.Without enough blood,the brain lives for only three to five minutes.More often the doctors can’t fix the damage.Sometimes they are afraid to try something to help because it is dangerous to work on the brain.The doctors might make the person worse if he operates on the brain.

Dr. Robert White,a famous professor and doctor,thinks he knows a way to help.He thinks doctors should make the brain very cold.If it is very cold,the brain can live without blood for 30 minutes.This gives the doctor a longer time to do something for the brain.

Dr. White tried his idea on 13 monkeys.First he taught them to do different jobs,then he operated on them.He made the monkeys’ blood go through a machine.The machine cooled the blood.Then the machine sent the blood back to the monkeys’ brains.When the brain’s temperature was 10℃.Dr. White stopped the blood to the brain.After 30 minutes he turned the blood back on.He warmed the blood again.After their operations the monkeys were like they had been before.They were healthy and busy.Each one could still do the jobs the doctor had taught them.

1.The biggest difficulty in operating on the damaged brain is that _______.

A.the time is too short for doctors

B.the patients are often too nervous

C.the damage is extremely hard to fix

D.the blood-cooling machine might break down

2.The brain operation was made possible mainly by _______.

A.taking the blood out of the brain

B.trying the operation on monkeys first

C.having the blood go through a machine

D.lowering the brain’s temperature

3.With Dr. White’s new idea,the operation on the damaged brain _______.

A.can last as long as 30 minutes

B.can keep the brain’s blood warm

C.can keep the patient’s brain healthy

D.can help monkeys do different jobs

4.What is the right order of the steps in the operation?

a.send the cooled blood back to the brain

b.stop the blood to the brain

c.have the blood cooled down

d.operate on the brain

A.a,b,c,d               B.c,a,b,d               C.c,b,d,a               D.b,c,d,a