摘要: Current trends i that transportation is becoming cleaner,faster and safer.

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Since the beginning of human evolution, men have migrated(迁移)across continents in search of food, shelter, safety, and comfortable weather. People still move for these reasons, but new reasons for human migration are arising, such as job relocation(重新安置) and overpopulation.
    Three million migrants are moving from poor countries to wealthier ones each year, and increasingly, their destination is a neighboring country in developing parts of the world. People are moving within the developing world for the same reasons as they migrate to wealthier nations. People from poor countries are going to less poor countries, fleeing wars and conflicts. They are also responding to population pressures because some countries are densely populated, and they often have high population growth. Those people need to go somewhere else.
    There are three main reasons why people move. The basic categories and percentages are as follows, according to the Current Population Surveys (CPS):
    Family-related reasons account for 26.3%, including changes in marital(婚姻的) status, establishing a household and other family reasons; work-related reasons 16.2%, including job transfer, retirement, and other job-related reasons; housing-related reasons 51.6%, including new and better houses, better neighborhood, cheaper housing and other housing reasons; the remaining 5.9% of other reasons are attending college, the change of climate and health reasons.
    Americans have been migrating south and west for decades in search of better job opportunities and warmer climates. They have also been moving to places a little far from cities, in search of bigger yards and houses, lower crime rates and better schools. In 1950, nearly a fifth of the population lived in the nation’s 20 largest cities. In 2006, it was about one in ten. That’s why many American people say, “Big Cities Shrink as People Move South, West.”
    Between March 2005 and March 2007, 73.4 million Americans moved. Fifty-six percent of these moves were within the same country. Twenty percent were between counties but in the same state. Nineteen percent were moves to a different state. Some families even went abroad.
Title: People on the   71 

Lead-in

Throughout human  72 , people have migrated across continents.

An  73  number of people from poor countries are moving to  74  countries, especially neighboring ones.

_75  for people’s migration

According to the CPS, the  76  of people move to other places for reasons  77    to housing.

Americans have long been moving south and west, looking 78   a better job chance, a warmer  79  and a bigger yard, etc.

Conclusion

Now every year more and more people move to other places, which seems to have become a global  80 .

 

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完形填空(Cloze Test)

  News analysts(分析家),reporters, and correspondents(通讯记者)play a   1   role in our society.They gather information, prepare stories, and make broadcasts that inform us about local, state, national, and international   2   ; present points of view on current issues; and report on the actions of public officials.

  Journalists spend much of their time out and about   3   information, interviewing people and attending events and press conferences.They make notes or   4   interviews on tape.Then, back in the office, they   5   the“copy”on a word processor.Journalists also do a lot of work on the phone,   6   and checking out facts.Large newspapers and radio and television   7   assign reporters to gather news about specific   8   such as crime or education.Some reporters specialize in fields such as health, politics, foreign affairs, sports, theater, consumer affairs, social events, science, business, or religion.Reporters on small publications   9   all aspects of the news.They take   10   , write headlines, lay out pages, edit wire service stories, and write editorials.It can get pretty frantic(狂乱的)as   11   draw near, so you need to be able to work   12   and under pressure.

  Journalists must be able to write clearly and concisely(简明的).They need to   13 a story interesting-and getting it the right   14   is quite a skill!You need to be   15 in people and have a(an)“   16   ”for a good story.

  This is certainly not a nine to five   17  .After all, newsworthy events happen 24 hours a day, seven days a week.  18   can be long, especially when there are deadlines to   19  .On the other hand, you get to talk to lots of interesting people, see all kinds of places and   20   the excitement of being right where it's all happening.

(1)

[  ]

A.

lead

B.

supportive

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important

D.

key

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[  ]

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events

B.

incidents

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accidents

D.

news

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[  ]

A.

to gather

B.

gathering

C.

reporting

D.

to report

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[  ]

A.

record

B.

make

C.

have

D.

give

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[  ]

A.

print

B.

approve

C.

write up

D.

read

(6)

[  ]

A.

talking

B.

interviewing

C.

polishing

D.

proving

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[  ]

A.

stations

B.

organizations

C.

institutes

D.

companies

(8)

[  ]

A.

titles

B.

topics

C.

headlines

D.

ideas

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[  ]

A.

concltude

B.

include

C.

broadcast

D.

cover

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[  ]

A.

actions

B.

photographs

C.

materials

D.

interviews

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[  ]

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deadlines

B.

publishings

C.

days

D.

nights

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[  ]

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carefully

B.

clearly

C.

quickly

D.

happily

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[  ]

A.

make

B.

make up

C.

write

D.

tell

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[  ]

A.

words

B.

way

C.

size

D.

length

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worried

B.

curious

C.

interested

D.

concerned

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[  ]

A.

nose

B.

mind

C.

head

D.

eye

(17)

[  ]

A.

thing

B.

work

C.

job

D.

timetable

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[  ]

A.

Days

B.

Hours

C.

Weeks

D.

Years

(19)

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A.

arrive

B.

draw

C.

hurry

D.

meet

(20)

[  ]

A.

experience

B.

feel

C.

face

D.

get

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[l]When you have a question about something, where do you go? For many people the answer is simple.They go online to a search engine like Google or Yahoo.But what about people in rural or underdeveloped areas who ___________________?

  [2]A consultant in California, Rose Shuman, has found the answer.Her solution is Question Box.Question Box is a service that provides answers—free of charge—for people who cannot search the Internet directly.

  [3]Question Box began two years ago in India.As Rose Shuman said: "You just push a button, a big green button, and that will connect you directly to our operators who are sitting in front of computers, and speak your language.And you can ask them any sort of question you want, and they'll look it up in English or in Hindi, or whatever the main language is, and translate the answer right back for you."

  [4]The service is currently offered in two villages.The latest version of the box uses mobile phone technology and solar panels in case the electrical power fails.Rose Shuman said the aim was to make the box as easy as possible for users.

  [5]Question Box has expanded to Uganda where the Internet service has proved slow also ask about current events and many other subjects.It's believed that Question Box will play an important part in the development of undeveloped areas.

1. What's the main idea of this passage? (no more than 15 words

                                      

                                      

2. Please fill in the blank in Paragraph 1 with proper words. (no more than 8 words)

                                      

                                      

3.Which sentence in the passage is the closest in meaning with the following?

  The newly-invented Question Box works with the help of mobile phone technology and the use of solar energy in case of electricity failure.

                                      

                                      

4. Sum up the three steps to get the information you need from Question Box.(no more than 10 words for each)

  ①We                        ________  .

  ②We                         _________ .

  ③The operators                         .

5. Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 5 into Chinese.

                                       

                                      

 

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II.完形填空:(30分满分,每小题1.5分)

阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从41到60各题所给的四个选项选出最佳答案。

I had applied for the nuclear submarine program, and Admiral Rickover interviewed me for the job. It was the first time I met Admiral Rickover, and we sat in a large room  41 ourselves for more than two hours, and he let me  42 any subjects I wished to  43 . Very carefully, I chose those about which I knew most at the time – current events, seamanship, music, literature, naval tactics, electronics, gunnery – and he began to ask me a series of questions of increasing  44 . In each instance, he soon  45 that I knew relatively  46 about the subjects I had chosen.

He always looked right  47 my eyes,and he never smiled. I was wet with cold  48 .

Finally, he asked me a question and I thought I could regain  49 . He said, “How did you  50  in your class at Georgia Tech before  51 our Annapolis as a plebe (军校新生) ?” I had done very well, and I swelled my chest with pride and answered, “Sir, I stood fifty-ninth in a class of 820!” I sat back to wait for the  52 --- which never came.  53 , the question: “Did you do your best?” I started to say, “Yes, Sir,” but I remembered who this was, and  54 several of my times at the academy 55 I could have learned more about our supporters, our enemies, weapons strategy, and so forth. I was just human. I 56 my throat and finally said, “No, Sir. I didn’t always do my  57.”  

He looked at me for a long time, and then turned his chair around to  58 the interview. He asked one final question, which I have never been able to forget  59 to answer. He said, “Why not?” I sat there for a while,  60 , and then slowly left the room.

41.A.beside      B.with  C.for    D.by

42.A.choose      B.consider    C.elect    D.search

43.A.learn      B.confirm    C.discuss   D.concern

44.A.humor      B.knowledge       C.difficulty       D.ability

45.A..proved  B.showed  C.meant       D.imagined

46.A.much       B.anything        C.little      D.everything

47.A.for    B.into   C.back  D.up

48.A.sweat       B.air     C.water D.weather

49.A.consideration   B.permission           C.self-confidence D.self-defense

50.A.stand B deal.    C.behave      D.go

51.A.leaving     B.reaching   C.choosing   D.entering

52.A.celebrations     B.expectations     C.evaluations       congratulations

53.A.Thus B.Instead     C.However   D.Therefore

54.A.recalled    B.tried  C.analyzed   D.examined

55.A.where       B.that   C.when       D.which

56.A.cleared     B examined.   C cleaned.      D treated.

57.A.worst       B.best       C.fewest      D.least

58.A.start       B.continue   C.interrupt   D.end

59.A.so   B.and        C.or     D.but

60.A.moved      B.excited     C.frightened D.shaken

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