47. A. put up with B.
keep up with
C. deal with D. do with
Section C (12分)
Directions: Complete the following passage by using ONE word that best
fits the context.
When Mrs. Joseph Groeger died recently in Vienna, Austria,
people asked, "Why did she live to be 107?". 48 were provided by a survey conducted among
148 Viennese men and women who had reached the age of 100. Somewhat surprising
was the fact 49 the majority had lived most of their
lives in cities. 50 the city's image as an unhealthy place,
yet city living often provides benefits that country living can lack. One
factor seems to be important to the longevity (长寿) of those interviewed.
This factor is
exercise. In the cities it is often faster to walk short distances than 51 wait for a bus. Even taking public
transportation often requires some walking. Smaller apartment houses have 52 elevators (电梯), and so people must climb stairs.
City people can usually walk to local supermarkets. 53 parking spaces are hard to find, there is
often no alternative to walking.
On the other hand, those who
live in the 54 and suburbs do not have to walk every
day. In fact, the opposite is often true. To go to school, work, or almost
anywhere 55 , they must ride in
cars.
PART THREE: 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.
A
At dawn on Friday,
May 19, 1780, farmers in New England stopped
to wonder at the pink color of the sun. By noon the sky had darkened to
midnight blackness, causing Americans, still in the painful struggle of a
prolonged war of independence, to light candles and tremble at thoughts of the
Last Judgment. As the birds quieted and no storm accompanied the darkness, men
and women crowded into churches, where one minister commented that “The people
were very attentive.” John Greenleaf Whittier later wrote that “Men prayed, and
women wept; all ears grew sharp . . .”
A recent study of
researchers, led by Richard Guyette from the University of Missouri’s
Tree Ring Laboratory, has shown that vast forest fires in the Algonquin
Highlands of southern Ontario and elsewhere in
Canada brought this event
upon New England. The scientists have
discovered “fire scars” on the rings for that year, left when the heat of a
wildfire has killed a part of a tree’s cambium (形成层). Evidence collected also points to
a drought that year. An easterly wind and low barometric pressure (低气压) helped force smoke into the upper atmosphere. “The record fits
pretty close,” says Guyette. “We had the right fuel,
the drought. The conditions were all there.”
Lacking the ability
to communicate quickly over long distances, Americans in 1780 remained in the
dark about the event, which had disappeared by the next day. Over the next
several months, the papers carried heated debates about what brought the
darkness. Some were the voices of angry prediction, such as one Massachusetts farmer who
wrote, “Oh! Backsliding New-England, attend now to the things which belong to
your peace before they are forever hid from your eyes.” Others gave different
answers. One stated that a “flaming star” had passed between the earth and the
sun. Ash, argued another commentator. The debate, carried on throughout New England, where there were no scientific journals or
academies yet, reflected an unfolding culture of scientific enquiry already
sweeping the Western world, a revolution nearly as influential as the war for
independence from the English.
New Englanders
would not soon forget that dark day; it lived on in folklore, poems, and
sermons for generations.