47.
A.
interesting B.
adventurous C.
unforgettable D.
exciting
Section C(12分)
Directions:
Complete the following passage by using ONE word that best fits the context.
Snake dishes
have become popular in recent years. Snake meat in various flavors is often seen
in restaurant ads. Eating snake seems to be now in vogue(盛行),and if you haven’t eaten snake yet, you are considered
“out of date”. But I wonder 48 all the trends are worth following.
Some people
may defend them selves 49 saying that snake meat is nutritious.
But these people don’t realize that many parasites(寄生虫), 50 do harm to our health, are found inside
snakes.
According
51 a survey,
about 1000 tons of snakes are eaten every year in China and sometimes as 52 as 10 tons of snakes are served on dinner
tables in Shen zhen in a single day!
These figures
warn us that if no action is taken, 53 number of snakes will drop and make an
increase in mice and worms population, which will 54 in a
decrease of crop output. Who will see such tragedy happen?
So let’s
start not to eat snakes any more because “to protect the snake is to protect 55 ”.
PARTTHREE: READING COMPREHENSION(30分)
Directions:
Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions
or unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and
D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage.
Think of
some of your favorite singers. When you listen, they can make you happy or sad,
peaceful or angry. They can make you relax or want to get up and dance. Gifted singer
shave the power to affect us in many ways- emotionally, physically and mentally.
But becoming
a great singer isn’t as easy as listening to one. It takes practice, devotion and
strong lungs! Just ask the well-known American opera star Carol Vaness.
At the
Metropolitan Opera in New York City
where she often sings, Carol’s voice must be loud enough to be heard by four thousand
people. It must reach every person in the theater, without a microphone, even when
she’s singing softly. The reason Carol can project her voice that far is the way
she breathes.
“When you
breathe, it’s like a swimmer taking a deep breath before going under water,” Carol
explains. “You have to take a lot of air into your lungs. ”
According
to Carol, the main difference between pop singing and opera is “how you breathe,
how much air you take in, and how you control it coming out. Regular singing is
more like speaking, and it’s a lot softer. When I sing for children, they’re often
surprised by how the vibrations strike their ears-like waves on a beach,” Carol
says. “In opera, the air doesn’t just go out of your mouth -it vibrates in your
chest, the way a guitar vibrates when it’s played.”
Ever since
she started piano lessons at the age often, Carol has loved music. As she got older,
she decided to become a music teacher. When she went to college, she took singing
lessons as part of her studies. Her voice teacher discovered that nineteen-year-old
Carol had an exceptionally beautiful soprano voice-the highest singing voice for
women.
Carol decided
to make opera her goal, not only because she loved to sing but also because she
loved the drama. Opera is a play in which the characters sing the words instead
of speaking them. The stories of opera can be tragic or comical. They can be personal
stories about two people falling in love or grand stories about kings and queens
who lived long ago. As the characters in an opera sing, thee motions expressed by
words and music come to life.
Today,
Carol performs through out the United States
and Europe and she has sung for almost twenty years.
But she has never forgot ten where she started singing in the first place.
“Put your
heart into your singing and enjoy it,” says Carol, “because singing is a great joy.
That’s
why I sing. In fact, that’s why everybody sings. ”