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此行多一个词：把多余的词在答题卡相应的位置上用斜线（\）划掉。

此行缺一个词：在答题卡相应的位置上写出该加的词，并附带前（后）词。

此行错一个词：在答题卡相应的位置上写出该该错和改正后的词。

注意：原行没有错的不要改。

Dear Alice,

   I have just got some good news to tell to you.                             76. ______

I win a national prize for painting last week.                             77. ______

My father was so pleasing that he suggested                             78. ______

I go to England for a holiday. I’d like to staying                           79. ______

there for half a month, visiting place of interest                               80. ______

or practicing my English as well. We’ve been                            81. ______

writing to each for nearly a year now. I have                            82. ______

often dreamed of talk face to face with you.                         83. ______

I imagine you’ll be at vacation yourself by that                           84. ______

time. Perhaps we could go out to do some                                   85. ______

sightseeing together.

Best,

                                  Lily

Close your eyes and imagine you are living in the next two centuries or more. You’ll be living in a world filled with smart robots, which will be helping you to take care of your children, or your elderly parents in your home. You’ll live much longer thanks to the medicine made by genetic (基因的) science. And mankind may be going farther in space than ever before ––you will be living on the moon or Mars.

How should we view the changes that wait for us in the future? Should we be optimistic about the years ahead, or worried about what the future holds? Some scientists and experts are having a discussion about how technology, science and society will develop in the future.

“I’m looking forward to the day when more technology will come to my life,” says John Searle, a professor at the University of California Berkeley Philosophy, “because I think further research in such areas as genetics, physics, chemistry and medicine will help us to overcome poverty, improve health, and

make life longer.”

Hugh Herr, at MIT’s Biomechatronics Group, considers very powerful weapons (武器) as concern (担心) over the future. Another is the growing role of technology in our lives. “Machines taking over what humans do is not a good thing,” Herr says.

That is a similar concern shared by Daniela Cerqui, a social and cultural scientist. “I am afraid that the long-term future we are building will have no space left for human beings,” says Cerqui. “The main values of our society are related to information that must progress as quickly as possible, and computers are much better than humans in these tasks.”

60. The first paragraph mainly tells us ________.

A. how science will develop in the next two centuries 

B. how people will live in a modern society  

C. what life would be like in the future  

D. what computers will bring to our society

61. What is John Searle’s attitude towards the future of technology?

A. Worried.    B. Optimistic.   C. Uncertain.   D. Disappointed.

62. The underlined word “That” in the last paragraph refers to______.

A. the poverty problem in the future           

B. machines taking over what humans do

C. the technology of weapons

D. the health problem of humans

63. What would be the best title for the passage?

A. The future––full of hope or concern?

B. Great changes will take place in the future

C. The relationship between technology and humans           

D. The role of robots and computers in the future

Most people believe they don’t have much imagination. They are    11   . Everyone has imagination, but most of us, once we become adults, forget how to   12  it. Creativity isn’t always  13 with great works of art or ideas. People at work and in their free time   14   think of creative ways to solve problems. Maybe you have a goal to achieve, a tricky question to answer or you just want to expand your mind! Here are three techniques to help you.

　　Making connections. This technique involves taking   15  ideas and trying to find links between them. First, think about the problem you have to solve or the job you need to do. Then find an image, word, idea or object, for example, a candle. Write down all the ideas/words  16  with candles: light, fire, matches, wax, night, silence, etc. Think of as many as you can. The next stage is to relate the   17 to the job you have to do. So imagine you want to buy a friend an original   18  ; you could buy him tickets to match or take him out for the night.

　　NO limits! Imagine that normal limitations don’t   19  . You have as much time /space / money, etc. as you want. Think about your goal and the new  20  . If your goal is to learn to ski,    21  , you can now practise skiing every day of your life (because you have the time and the money). Now   22   this to reality. Maybe you can practise skiing every day in December, or every Monday in January.

Be someone else! Look at the situation from a    23  point of view. Good businessmen use this technique in trade, and so do writers. Fiction writers often imagine they are the  24   in their books. They ask questions: What does this character want? Why can’t she get it? What changes must she make to get what she wants? If your goal involves other people, put yourself in their    25 . The best fishermen think like fish!

A young officer was teaching some old soldiers. They had been in the army for many years and did not like officers, young or old.

They did not think this young officer could tell them anything about how to fight in a war.

Private Jones was nearly sixty years old and had fought in many wars. He had a row of medals on his chest.

“Imagine you are in a battle,” the young officer said to him. “You see seven hundred enemy soldiers coming towards you. What do you do?”

Private Jones thought for a few moments, and then he said, “I shoot them all with my rifle.”

“Now imagine there are seven hundred enemy soldiers coming towards you from the left,” the young officer said, “and seven hundred enemy soldiers coming to you from the right. What do you do?”

“I shoot them with my rifle,” Private Jones answered.

“OK,” the young officer went on, trying to get the answer he wanted, “but what if there are a thousand enemy soldiers coming at you from the right, a thousand coming at you from the left, and another thousand coming straight towards you. What do you do now?”

“I shoot them with my rifle,” Private Jones replied.

“But where are you getting all the bullets from?” the young officer demanded.

Private Jones smiled. “From the same place you are getting all those enemy soldiers.”

72. What was the young officer supposed to do?

A.    Train the soldiers.         B.     Attack the soldiers.

C.    Shoot the soldiers.         D.    Like the soldiers.

73. The old soldiers___________.

A.    didn’t like Private Jones    B.    didn’t like any officers

C.    wanted to fight in a war     D.   wanted to become officers

74. What was Private Jones doing in the story?

A.    Answering questions.       B.   Shooting the enemy.

C.    Getting a lot of bullets.      D.  Showing off his medals.

75. At the end of the story the young officer was probably__________.

A.    pleased with Private Jones    B. annoyed with Private Jones

C.    delighted with Private Jones   D. frightening Private Jones

Looking back on my childhood, I am quite sure that naturalists are born and not made. Although we were all brought up in the same way, my brothers and sisters soon left their pressed flowers and insects completely forever. Unlike them, I had no ear for music and languages. I was not an early reader and I could not do mental mathematics.

Before World War I, we spent our summer holidays in Hungary. I have only the dim memory of the house we lived in, of my room and of my toys. Nor do I remember clearly the large family of grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins who gathered next door. But I do have a clear memory of the dogs, the farm animals, the local birds, and above all, the insects

I am a naturalist, not a scientist. I have a strong love of the natural world and my interest had led me into varied investigations. I love discussing my favorite subjects and enjoy burning the midnight oil reading about other people’s discoveries. Then something happens that brings these discoveries together in my mind. Suddenly you imagine you see the answer to the question, because it all seems to fit together. This has resulted in my publishing 300 papers and books, which some might honor with the title of scientific research.

But interest, a good eye, a good memory and enjoyment of the animal and plant world do not make a scientist: one of the outstanding and necessary qualities required is self-discipline(自我修养), a quality I lack. A scientist, up to point, can be made. A naturalist is born. If you can combine the two, you get the best of both worlds.

1.The first paragraph tells us the author __________.

A. was interested in flowers and insects in his childhood

B. lost his hearing when he was a child

C. didn’t like his brothers and sisters

D. was born to a naturalist’s family

2.The author can’t remember his relatives clearly because __________.

A. he didn’t live very long with them

B. the family was extremely large

C. he was too young when he lived with them

D. he paid more attention to nature

3.The author says that he is a naturalist rather than a scientist probably because he thinks he __________.

A. has a great deal of trouble doing mental mathematics

B. lacks some of the qualities required of s scientist

C. just reads about other people’s discoveries

D. comes up with solutions in a most natural way