66. Why did Maureen Clemmons’s theory prove not true? (No more than 12 words)

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PART FOUR　 WRITING

SECTION A　 10 points

Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the numbered blanks by using the information for the passage. Write NO MORE THAN 3 WORDS for each answer.

Many people believe they are supposed to drink eight glasses of water a day, or about two liters(升). Why? Because that is the amount of water they have been told all their life. But a recent report offers some different advice. Experts suggest people should obey their bodies: they should drink as much water as they feel like drinking.

The report says most healthy people meet their daily needs for liquid by letting thirst be their guide. The report is from the Institute of Medicine, which provides scientific and technical advice to the government and the public. The report contains some general suggestions. It says women should get about 2.7 liters of water daily and men about 3.7 liters. But wait-in each case, that is more than eight glasses.

There is one important difference. The report does not tell people how many glasses of water are needed to meet these guidelines. This is because the daily water requirement can include the water content in foods.

As you might expect, the Institute of Medicine says people need to drink more water when they are physically active. The same is true of those who live in hot climates. Depending on heat and activity, people could need twice as much water as others do.

All this, however, does not answer one question. No one seems sure why people have the idea that good health requires eight glasses of water daily. It may have started with a misunderstanding.

How much water people should drink every day

SECTION B

Directions: Finishing the sentences according to Chinese, one word for each blank. 6 points

65. Did Mary Gharid support Maureen Clemmons’s idea? (No more than 3 words)

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64. Who helped her test the theory? (No more than 5 words)

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63. What is Maureen Clemmons’s theory? ( No more than 10 words )

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62. Which of the following is false?

A. Some people find sightseeing trips boring.

B. Earth watch is planning all these special adventures.

C. The number of orcas is decreasing.

D. 3 volcano explosions in all broke out 3, 500 years ago in Greece.

SECTION B　 4 points

Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and the required words limit.

Write your answers on your answer sheet.

It's one of the world's greatest mysteries - how did the ancient Egyptians build the pyramids? It's as worrying as the riddle of the Sphinx. And the truth is, no one really knows how they built the pyramids.

But amateur Egyptologist Maureen Clemmons has a theory. She thinks that kites may have been used to build the pyramids.

"If you look at the top center of every monument , you see wings," Clemmons said. "I think the Egyptians have been trying to tell us in pictures for 3000 years that this is how they built the pyramids."

Her idea - to build a pyramid, you control the desert wind using kites to lift the stones. She got a team of aeronautic engineers from Caltech to help her test the theory.

"At the beginning, we were very critical of her ideas but then we started to think more about it and we said, 'why not? let's try it,'" said Mary Gharid of Caltech.

The engineers worked out the math and designed a system of nylon ropes and pulleys (滑轮). Each pulley is four times the amount of weight a single kite can pull.

"So, we're using one kite in 15 mile per hour winds to lift up a three and half ton block," said Caltech student Emilio Castano.

Yesterday, in the Mojave Desert, they put their theory to the test using a nylon kite, three pulleys and an obelisk(方尖塔) that weighs nearly four tons. The wind speed had to be just right. And unimaginably, it worked. There was more than enough force to raise the obelisk. The total airtime is only twenty-five seconds. But the fact that it can be done doesn't necessarily mean that's how the ancient Egyptians did it. "There's absolutely no evidence (证据) for kites in ancient Egypt," said Professor Carol Redmount of UC Berkeley. "There's no evidence of pulleys as we know them today."

61. The word intelligent in paragraph 4 means _______.

A. exciting　 　　　 B. beautiful　　　　 C. large　 　　D. clever

60. If you want to learn something about people of the past, you can _______.

A. join the team to Hawaii　　　　　 B. join the team to the Far North

C. join the team to Washington　　　 D. join the team to Greece

59. From the passage, on an adventure trip, people ______.

A. may not spend much time on sightseeing

B. won’t meet some difficulties or hardships

C. can’t enjoy them

D. can’t learn something

58. Which of the following is a way to save online time?

A. People seldom use capital letters or punctuation marks.

　 B. Many people draw pictures.

　 C. People only use the mouse instead of the keyboard.

D. People never use the "shift" key.

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Adventure Vacations

People like different kinds of vacations. Some go camping. They swim, fish, cook over a fire and sleep outside. Others like to stay at a hotel in an exciting city. They go shopping all day and go dancing all night. Or maybe they go sightseeing to places such as Disneyland, the Tai Mahan or the Louver.

Some people are bored with sightseeing trips. They don’t want to be “tourists”. They want to have an adventure--a surprising and exciting trip. They want to learn something and maybe help people too. How can they do this? Some travel companies and environmental groups are planning special adventures. Sometimes these trips are difficult and full of hardships, but they’re a lot of fun. One organization, Earth watch, sends small groups of volunteers to different parts of the world. Some volunteers spend two weeks and study the environment. Others work with animals. Others learn about people of the past.

Would you like an adventure in the Far North? A team of volunteers is leaving from Mormons, Russia. The leader of this trip is a professor from Alaska. He’s worried about chemicals from factories. He and the volunteers will study this pollution in the environment. If you like exercise and cold weather, this is a good trip for you. Volunteers need ski sixteen kilometers every day.

Do you enjoy ocean animals? You can spend two to four weeks in Hawaii. There, you can teach language to dolphins. Dolphins can follow orders such as “Bring me the large ball.” They also understand opposites. How much more can they understand? It will be exciting to learn about these intelligent animals. Another study trip goes to Washington State and follows orcas. We call orcas “killer Whale”, but they’re really dolphins-the largest kind of dolphin. This beautiful animal travels together in family groups. They move through the ocean with their mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers. Ocean pollution is chasing their lives. Earth watch is studying how this happens.

Are you interested in history? Then Greece is the place for your adventure. Thirty-five hundred years ago a volcano exploded there, on Santorum. This explosion was more terrible than Karate or Mount Saint Helens. But today we know a lot about the way of life of the people from that time. There are houses, kitchens, and paintings as interesting as those in Pompeii. Today teams of volunteers are learning more about people from the past.

Do you want a very different vacation? Do you want to travel far, work hard and learn a lot? Then an Earth watch vacation is for you.

57. If you get 17/F/NY as an answer to your A/S/L, it means_________.

A. the people on the other end is 17 from New York and he is fine

B. you are talking to a girl who is 17 and lives in New York

C. you are talking to 17 girls who are from New York

D. the people you are talking to is a 17-foot tall New York girl