A.The reason why few mummies are left today.

B.The three most famous Egyptian mummies.

C.Mummy and mummification.

D.A safe passage to the afterlife

AB. The reason why Egyptians made and gave up making mummies.

AC. Different ways to make mummies.

When you think of a mummy what comes to mind? Most of us usually picture an Egyptian mummy wrapped in bandages and buried deep inside a pyramid. While the Egyptian ones are the most famous, mummies have been found in many places throughout the world, from Greenland to China to the Andes Mountains of South America.

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A mummy is the body of a person that has been preserved after death. Normally when we die, bacteria and other germs eat away at the soft tissues (such as skin and muscles) leaving only the bones behind. Since bacteria need water in order to grow, mummification usually happens if the body dries out quickly after death. The body may then be so well preserved that we can even tell how the dead person may have looked in life.

__2. ____

Mummies are made naturally or by embalming（以香油涂尸防腐）, which is any process that people use to help preserve a dead body. Mummies can be dried out by extreme cold, by the sun, by smoke, or using chemicals such as natron（氧化钠）. Some bodies become mummies because there were favorable natural conditions when they died. Others were preserved and buried with great care.

__3. ____

The ancient Egyptians believed that mummifying a person's body after death was essential to ensure a safe passage to the afterlife. Over time almost all Egyptians who could afford to became mummies when they died -- a total of about 70 million mummies in 3,000 years. By the 4th century AD, many Egyptians had become Christians and no longer believed that mummification was necessary for life after death. Eventually, the Egyptians gave up the art and science of making mummies.

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So where did all the mummies go? Sadly, most were grabbed in ancient times by robbers looking for treasures wrapped up in the bandages. Countless mummies were also destroyed during the Middle Ages, when they were ground into powders to make supposedly magical pills. Later on, modern treasure hunters rushed into their tombs carelessly looking for artifacts and souvenirs. Even industry aided the destruction by using mummies' bandages to make paper or burning their bodies for fuel.

__5. ____

The best preserved mummies are those of the pharoahs and their relatives. These mummies tended to be more carefully embalmed and protected from harm. The mummies that have survived allow us to look back into the past and know something of the ancient Egyptians and their time. Three of the most famous Egyptians mummies are Tutankhamen, Seti I and Rameses II (Ramses the Great).

第二节（共5小题，每题2分，满分10分）

根据短文内容，从下框的A-F选项中选出能概括每一段主题的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余项。(注意：答案E涂AB，F涂BC)

People have expressed themselves thrugh the movements, steps, and rhythms of dance since the beginning of time. They have prayed and celebrated their victories through dance. People have mourned their dead and healed their sick through dance, the language of the body.

Today there are many kinds of dancing. For example, there is folk dancing, ballet dancing, and modern dancing. Modern dance, which began in the early 1900s, is a very expressionistic dance. Modern dancers follow no set pattern. Rather, they create their own movements to match the feeling they are trying to express. But modern dance means more than just selt-expression.

Martha Graham is one of the world’s greatest modern dancers. As a young dancer, she studied with some of the founders of the modern dance movement. Influnced by many different kinds of dancing, Martha Graham developed her own personal dance style. She later formed her own dance company and school in the New York City. The following are some of her feelings about her art.

The modern dancer’s costume is an important part of his or her dance. There is always some reason why a dance costume should be a certain color or an outfit cut in a certain way. The reason comes out of the dance itself. Unlike a ballet costume, a modern dance costume is left of the dancers’ art except the pictures and the memories.

Dances come from something deep within a person. That something cannot be expressed with words--- it must be told through movement. Because dance expresses emotions, it affects the mind and the body. Dance should not be taken apart interpreted-dance must be experienced.

第Ⅱ卷（45分）

单词拼写（7分）
【小题1】   If you have a p___________ for Impressionist paintings, you can go to Museum of Modern Art.
【小题2】As they had no children of their own, they a________ an orphan.
【小题3】The car accident has done p________ damage to his leg, and he will never be able to walk.
【小题4】There is no c__________ evidence showing the relationship between H7N9 and the dead pigs in Huangpu River.
【小题5】After 30 years’ struggle, China has been t_________ from an under-developed country to the second biggest economy in the world.
【小题6】I am willing to do anything in e__________ for my freedom.
【小题7】The woman waited for her husband at the mountaintop year after year and e_________ became stone.
【小题8】We should not hold p_______ against homosexuals, for it is just a personal choice.
【小题9】If you do the same thing over and over again, you begin to do it a_________________.
【小题10】The human activities have seriously threatened the e__________ of many species.
【小题11】Some environmental activists a___________ that nuclear energy should be massively developed to replace the traditional sources of energy.
【小题12】Some scientists still believe that global warming is just a natural p__________.
【小题13】The UN has already b____________ the use of nuclear weapons in the war.
【小题14】Galileo put forward the heliocentric theory and made great c_________ to our understanding of the universe. 

第二卷

第四部分：单词拼写 (共 10小题，每小题 1 分，满分10分)

根据句意和所给词首字母或汉语提示，填写单词或短语的正确形式。

The cultural e________ （交流) between China and Southeast Asian countries are on the increase these years.

The airport cannot g________ (担保) that the planes can take off on time in such terrible weather.

Have you visited the crater of the dead ______（火山） at Yongxing, Haikou？

The ________ (平均)age of the girls in the football team is 17.

He has no children so he _______ (抱养) an orphan two months ago.

Do you think it is the ________ _________（全球变暖） that causes the unusual climate changes?

I f_______ ________（想） eating out for dinner tonight. What about you?

She is crazy about art, music, films, ___ ___ ___（等等）

At the end, the Red Army men  m________ ________ ________（艰难抵达）to the appointed attacking position.

 Those boys are very interested in dancing, and the break dance i________ ________ (尤其是)

单词拼写（7分）

1.   If you have a p___________ for Impressionist paintings, you can go to Museum of Modern Art.

2.As they had no children of their own, they a________ an orphan.

3.The car accident has done p________ damage to his leg, and he will never be able to walk.

4.There is no c__________ evidence showing the relationship between H7N9 and the dead pigs in Huangpu River.

5.After 30 years’ struggle, China has been t_________ from an under-developed country to the second biggest economy in the world.

6.I am willing to do anything in e__________ for my freedom.

7.The woman waited for her husband at the mountaintop year after year and e_________ became stone.

8.We should not hold p_______ against homosexuals, for it is just a personal choice.

9.If you do the same thing over and over again, you begin to do it a_________________.

10.The human activities have seriously threatened the e__________ of many species.

11.Some environmental activists a___________ that nuclear energy should be massively developed to replace the traditional sources of energy.

12.Some scientists still believe that global warming is just a natural p__________.

13.The UN has already b____________ the use of nuclear weapons in the war.

14.Galileo put forward the heliocentric theory and made great c_________ to our understanding of the universe.