D

Last August, Joe and Mary Mahoney began looking at colleges for their 17-year-old daughter, Maureen. With a checklist of criteria in hand, the Dallas family looked around the country visiting half a dozen schools. They sought a university that offered the teenager’s intended major, one located near a large city, and a campus where their daughter would be safe.

“The safety issue is a big one,” says Joe Mahoney, who quickly discovered he wasn’t alone in his worries. On campus tours other parents voiced similar concerns, and the same question was always asked: what about crime? But when college officials always gave the same answer - “That’s not a problem here.” - Mahoney began to feel uneasy.

“No crime whatsoever?” comments Mahoney today.  “I just don’t buy it.”  Nor should he: in 1999 the U.S. Department of Education had reports of nearly 400,000 serious crimes on or around our campuses. “Parents need to understand that times have changed since they went to colleges,” says David Nichols, author of Creating a Safe Campus. “Campus crime mirrors the rest of the nation.”

But getting accurate information isn’t easy. Colleges must report crime statistics (统计数字) by law, but some hold back for fear of bad publicity, leaving the honest ones looking dangerous. “The truth may not always be obvious,” warns S. Daniel Carter of Security on Campus, Inc., the nation’s leading campus safety watchdog group.

To help concerned parents, Carter promised to visit campuses and talk to experts around the country to find out major crime issues and effective solutions.

71. The Mahoney’s visited quite a few colleges last August ______.

A. to express the opinions of many parents      B. to choose a right one for their daughter

C. to check the cost of college education       D. to find a right one near a large city

72. It is often difficult to get correct information on campus crime because some colleges ______.

A. receive too many visitors              B. mirror the rest of the nation

C. hide the truth of campus crime             D. have too many watchdog groups

73. The underlined word “buy” in the third paragraph means ______.

A. mind            B. admit            C. believe           D. expect

74. We learn from the text that “the honest ones” in the fourth paragraph most probably refers to colleges ______.

A. that are protected by campus security       B. that report campus crimes by law

C. that are free from campus crime            D. the enjoy very good publicity

75. What is the text mainly about?

A. Exact campus crime statistics.          B. Crimes on or around campuses.

C. Effective solutions to campus crime.         D. concerns about kids’ campus safety.

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C

As you may expect, life in space is much different from life on earth. So of course people need some time to get used to it. How do they live, work and play up there?

Space food keeps getting more like the food we eat at home on the earth. In the past, astronauts could eat only freeze-dried food. But now the space station has water, microwave ovens and fridges. So astronauts can eat more usual kinds of food, like fruit, vegetables and ice cream!

All people in the ISS(国际空间站)have their own rooms. There’s no gravity, so they have to attach themselves to their beds, or they’ll float away! That may seem like a hard way to sleep, but astronauts say that sleeping in space is actually not too bad.

This is more important in space than on Earth. There’s not much gravity in space. Astronauts don’t stand up, sit down or walk in space, so their muscles don’t have to work much. They exercise on bikes and other machines for about two hours every day while they’re in space. In this way, they can still keep strong and healthy when they get back home.

Easy things like brushing your teeth can be hard in space with low gravity. Water doesn’t flow out of a tap, it floats in a bubble(水泡)! Astronauts used a special hose(软管)to take showers. And when they’re finished, they use a vacuum(真空的)hose to suck the dirty water off of their bodies. How do you go to the toilet in space? They use a special “air toilet”. It uses air, not water, to take everything away.

What do astronauts do when they aren’t working? They read books, play cards, listen to music or send e-mail to their friends and family. Sometimes they just sit and look out the window. Doesn’t sound like much fun? But what if you could see planet Earth out of your window, with a sunset or sunrise every 45 minutes?

66. Which of the following can be the title of this passage?

A. Life In Space.  B. Space Food.   C. Showers In Space.  D. A Visit To Space

67.From this passage we know that _______.

A. astronauts eat quite different food in space from what they eat on the earth

B. astronauts ate only fruit in space in the past]

C. astronauts can only eat freeze-dried food now

D. astronauts can only eat fruit and vegetables now

68.Astronauts attach themselves to bed so as to ________

A. keep themselves warm                B. prevent themselves from floating away

C. have a good sleep                   D. feel better

69.Astronauts have to do exercise for two hours every day because ________.

A. they have nothing to do in space           B. they are told to do so

C. they do so to keep healthy         D. they do so to prevent them from sleeping

70.From the last paragraph we can guess that ________.

A. the sun moves fast around the earth

B. the earth circles round the sun very fast

C. the earth is very small

D. the spaceship circles round the earth once every 90 minutes

B

1970 was “World Conservation Year”. The United Nations wanted everyone to know that the world was in danger. They hoped that the governments would act quickly in order to conserve nature. Here is one example of the problem. At one time there were 1300 different plants, trees and flowers in Holland, but now only 860 remain. The others have been destroyed by modern man and his technology. We are changing the earth, the air and the water, and everything that grows and lives. We can't live without these things. If we continue like this, we shall destroy ourselves.

What will happen in the future? Perhaps it is more important to ask “What must we do now?” The people who will be living in the world of tomorrow are the young of today. A lot of them know that conservation is necessary. Many are hoping to save our world. They plant trees, build bridges across rivers in forests and so on. In a small town in the United States a large group of girls cleaned the banks of eleven kilometres of their river. Young people may hear about conservation through a record called “No, One's Going to Change our World. ” It was made by Scatles, Cliff Richard and other singers. The money from it will help to conserve wild animals. 

61. There are few plants, trees and flowers in Holland now because _______.

A. there has been a lot of conservation in Holland 

B. Holland does not need so many plants, trees and flowers

C. many plants, trees and flowers don't grow there any more 

D. some plants, trees and flowers are dangerous 

62. We shall destroy ourselves if we don't _______.

A. improve our technology in planting trees 

B. hear about the record called “No, One's Going to Change our World” 

C. try our best to save the world 

D. change the earth 

63. “No, One’s Going to Change our World.” was _______.

A. an important book published in 1970

B. a record calling on people to conserve nature 

C. an idea that nobody would accept

D. a rule worked out by the United States 

64. What is the most important thing for us to do to save our world?

A. We should clean the banks of our rivers. 

B. We should know what will happen in the future. 

C. We should know what we should do and do it now. 

D. We should plant more trees and flowers. 

65. What's the main idea of the passage?  

A. 1970 was “World Conservation Year”. 

B. The United Nations wanted everybody to know that the world is in danger. 

C. Conservation is necessary. 

D. It is the young people who are helping to save our world.

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