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     The blue tits (山雀) have been inspecting the nest-box again this year. The male is the house-hunter but the female will make the final choice. He lands at the hole and turns his head to expose his white cheeks as a signal to attract the female from where she has been feeding. Among many birds that nest in holes, the
male has a light-coloured patch on its plumage (鸟羽) which acts as signal for drawing the female's
attention to a suitable nesting-place. Unlike the blue tit, the redstart (红尾鸲) may be only the male that
strikingly coloured and the female is not beautiful.     
     A few years ago I was lucky enough to spot a pair of redstarts in action in a Walsh wood. The male
was leading an interested female to holes that he had previously (先前) checked out. He sat at the
entrance of each hole and put his head on to show off his white forehead, or his head in to reveal (显露)
his tail.     
     If the female failed to react to his visual signals, the male sometimes sang for extra effect, while gliding towards her on spread wings and tail. Once the female accepts by following the male through the hole the
displays stop, you must be at the right place at the right time to watch them.  
1. How do the blue tits choose their nest?
A. They choose their nest together.      
B. The male chooses their nest.
C. The house-hunter chooses their nest.
D. The female chooses their nest.
2. The writer was lucky to see _____.
A. how the male made his tricks
B. how an interested female played with the male happily
C. what the male displayed and won the female
D. that the male tried his best but failed to attract the female
3. You can spot a pair of redstarts in a Walsh wood _____.
A. at any time  
B. regularly      
C. in April      
D. occasionally

4. The writer is probably _____.

A. a bird expert
B. a bird-hunter
C. a bird raiser  
D. a scientist
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     With only about 1, 000 pandas left in the world, China is desperately trying to clone (克隆) the animal and save the endangered species (物种). That's a move similar to what a Texas A & M University
researchers have been undertaking for the past five years in a project called "Noah's Ark". Noah's Ark is
aimed at collecting eggs, embryos (胚胎), semen and DNA of endangered animals and storing them in
liquid nitrogen. If certain species should become extinct, Dr. Duane Kraemer, a professor in Texas
A & M's College of Veterinary Medicine, says there would be enough of the basic building blocks to
reintroduce the species in the future.
     It is estimated that as many as 2, 000 species of mammals, birds reptiles will become extinct in over
100 years. The panda, native only to China, is in danger of becoming extinct in the next 25 years.
     This week, Chinese scientists said they grew an embryo by introducing cells from a dead female panda
into the egg cells of a Japanese white rabbit. They are now trying to implant the embryo into a host
animal.       
     The entire procedure could take from three to five years to complete. 
     "The nuclear transfer (核子移植) of one species to another is not easy, and the lack of available
(capable of being used) panda eggs could be a major problem," Kraemer believes. "They will probably
have to do several hundred transfers to result in one pregnancy (having a baby). It takes a long time and
it's difficult, but this could be groundbreaking science if it works. They are certainly not putting any live
pandas at risk, so it is worth the effort," adds Kraemer, who is one of the leaders of the Project at Texas
A& M, the first-ever attempt at cloning a dog. 
     "They are trying to do something that's never been done, and this is very similar to our work in
Noah's Ark. We're both trying to save animals that face extinction. I certainly appreciate their effort and
there's a lot we can learn from what they are attempting to do. It's a research that is very much
needed."   
1. The aim of "Noah's Ark" project is to _____.
A. make efforts to clone the endangered pandas
B. save endangered animals from dying out
C. collect DNA of endangered animals to study
D. transfer the nuclear of one animal to another 
2. According to Professor Kraemer, the major problem in cloning pandas would be the lack of _____.
A. available panda eggs
B. host animals
C. qualified researchers
D. enough money  
3. The best title for the passage may be _____.
A. China's Success in Pandas Cloning                                        
B. The First Cloned Panda in the World      
C. Exploring the Possibility to Clone Pandas      
D. China -the Native Place of Pandas Forever
4. From the passage we know that _____.
A. Kraemer and his team have succeeded in cloning a dog      
B. scientists try to implant a panda's egg into a rabbit      
C. Kraemer will work with Chinese scientists in clone researches      
D. about two thousand of species will probably die out in a century
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     Do you want to live another 100 years or more? Some exports say that scientific advances will one day enable humans to last tens of years beyond what is now seen as the natural limit of the human life span.
     "I think we are knowing at the door of immortality (永生)." said Michael Zey, a Montclair State
University business professor and author of two books on the future. "I think by 2075____________________________ and that's  a conservative estimate (保守估计的).”
     At the conference in San Francisco, Donald Louria, a professor and author at New Jersey Medical
School in Newwark said advances in using genes as well as nanotechnology (纳米技术) make it likely
that humans will live in the future beyond what has been possible in the past. "There is a great push so that people can live from 120 to 180 years." He said. "Some have suggested that there is no limit and that
people could live to 200 or 300 or 500 years." 
     However, many scientists who specialize in aging are doubted about it and say the human body is just
not designed to last past about 120 years. Even with healthier lifestyles and less disease, they say failure of the brain and organs will finally lead all humans to death.  
     Scientists also differ on what kind of life the super aged might live. "It remains to be seen if you pass
120, you know; could you be healthy enough to have good quality of life?" said Leonard Poon, director of the University of George Gerontology Centre. "At present people who could get to that point are not in
good health at all."
1. What is the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words)
_______________________________________________________________________________
2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one? We have got some ideas about living longer.
_______________________________________________________________________________
3. Please fill in the blank in the second paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Pease answer with 10 words)
_______________________________________________________________________________
4. Do you think it is possible for humans to live longer in the future? (Please answer within 30 words)
_______________________________________________________________________________
5. Translate the underlined sentence in the last paragraph into Chinese.
_______________________________________________________________________________
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      Researchers have found more evidence that suggests a relationship between races and rates(率)
of lung cancer among smokers. A new study shows that black people and Native Hawaiians are more
likely to develop lung cancer from smoking. It compared their risk to whites, Japanese-Americans and
Latinos.
     Researchers at the University of Southern California and the University of Hawaii did the new study.
The New England Journal of Medicine published the findings. The eight-year research studied more than
180,000 people. They included present and former smokers and people who never smoked. Almost
2.000 people in the study developed lung cancer.
     Researchers say genetics(遗传学) might help explain the racial and ethnic(种族的) differences.
There could be differences in how people's bodies react to smoke. But environmental influences,
including the way people smoke, could also make a difference.
      African-Americans and Latinos in the study are reported smoking the fewest cigarettes per day.
Whites are the heaviest smokers. But the scientists point out that blacks have been reported to breathe
cigarette smoke more deeply than white smokers. This could fill their lungs with more of the chemicals
in tobacco that cause cancer.
      Scientists know that some diseases effect different groups differently. And some drug companies
have begun to develop racially targeted(针对) medicines. Last June, the United States Food and Drug
Administration approved a drug designed to treat heart failure in black patients. The name is BiDil. The
agency called it "a step toward the promise of personalized medicine."
1．Which of the following orders is from higher to lower risk of having lung cancer?
A．Whites-Native Hawaiians
B．Africans-Americans-Latinos
C．Asians-Native Hawaiians
D．Africans-Americans-Native Hawaiians
2．Researchers agree that it is      that may probably determine black people's risk of lung cancer.
A．the larger amount of smoking than white people
B．the living style or habit of the blacks
C．the depth of cigarette smoke into their lungs
D．the physical strength to react to cigarette smoke
3．People in the new study are made up of          .
A．heavy smokers in America
B．the black and white people
C．the Asians and Hawaiians
D．smokers and non-smokers
4．The production of BiDil referred to in the last paragraph is to      .
A．explain different races react to some diseases differently
B．tell the readers that racial differences exist in smokers
C．show a big step people have taken in the medicine area
D．support the idea that it is easy for blacks to have cancers
5．Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the author?
A．The way of smoking may increase the risk of lung cancer.
B．Race has nothing to do with the risk of having a lung cancer.
C．The research was started by the New England Journal of Medicine.
D．The risk of lung cancer lies I how much a person smokes.
     There is one language that is used in every country in the world. The people who use it are young and
old, short and tall, thin and fat. It is everybody's second language. It is easy to understand, although you
can't hear it. It is sign language.      
     When you wave to a friend who is across the street, you are using sign language. When you smile at someone, you are saying, "I want to be friendly", but you are not using speech. You are using sign language. When you raise your hand in class, you are saying, "Please ask me. I think I know the correct answer."     
      Babies who can't talk can point at things. They are using sign language. A policeman who wants to
stop traffic holds up his hands. He is using sign language.      
     Many years ago, a French priest, Charles Michel de Epee, became interested in education for deaf
people. He invented a finger alphabet (字母表). It is still in use. People can make the sign for letters and
spell words with their hands, and deaf people can read and understand them. Soon there were schools for the deaf in many countries. The only university for the deaf is Gallaudet College in Washington, D.C.      
     Today, in the United States, there are special TV news programs for deaf people. The newsreader tells the news in sign language. At the same time, the words appear on the TV screen.      
     The actors in the Theatre of Deaf don't spell every word. Sometimes they use hand signs. When they
put two hands together, it means sandwich. They can make a roof with their hands when they want to
show a house. One finger in front of an actor's mouth can mean quiet. You can talk to people who are
behind windows that are closed. And when you go swimming with your friends, you can have
conversations under water.      
     How many hand signs do you use every day?
1. Which of the following about sign language is TRUE? 
A. It is a special language used in a few countries in the world.
B. It is a way to express one's ideas without words.
C. It is only used by the deaf.        
D. It can be heard.
2. If you want to express the idea that "I am very friendly" to someone, you will _____.
A. raise your hand            
B. put one hand onto the other
C. smile to the person        
D. make a roof with your hands
3. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Hand signs instead of finger signs are used everyday.
B. There are schools, colleges and universities for the deaf in the USA.
C. The French priest Charles invented sign language.      
D. Even babies are using sign language.
4. The passage is mainly about ______.
A. an introduction to sign language      
B. the importance of sign language
C. a famous priest in France            
D. how to use sign language  
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     The gift of being able to describe a face accurately is a rare one, as every experienced police
officer knows to his cost. As the Lancet put it recently, "When we try to describe faces precisely,
words fail us, and we resort to identikit (拼脸型图) procedures."
     Yet, according to one authority on the subject, we can each probably recognize more than
1,000 faces, the majority of which differ in fine details. This, when one comes to think of it, is a
tremendous feat, though, curiously enough, relatively little attention has been devoted to the
fundamental problems of how and why we acquire this gift for recognizing and remembering faces.
Is it an inborn property of our brains, or an acquired one? As so often happens, the experts tend
to differ.
     Thus, some argue that it is inborn, and that there are "special characteristics about the brain's
ability to distinguish faces". In support of this, they note how much better we are at recognizing a
face after a single encounter than we are, for example, in recognizing an individual horse. On the
other hand, there are those, and they are probably in the majority, who claim that the gift is an
acquired one.
     The arguments in favor of this latter view, it must be confessed, are impressive. It is a habit that
is acquired soon after birth. Watch, for instance, how a quite young baby recognizes his mother by
sight. Granted that his other senses help - the sound, his sense of smell, the distinctive way she
handles him. But of all these, sight is predominant. Formed at the very beginning of life, the ability
to recognize faces quickly becomes an established habit, and one that is, essential for daily living,
if not necessarily for survival. How essential and valuable it is we probably do not appreciate until
we encounter people who have been deprived of the faculty.
     This unfortunate inability to recognize familiar faces is known to all, but such people can often
recognize individuals by their voices, their walking manners or their spectacles. With typical human
ingenuity, many of these unfortunate people overcome their handicap by recognizing other
characteristic features.

1. It is stated in the passage that ______.
A. it is unusual for a person to be able to identify a face satisfactorily
B. the ability to recognize faces unhesitatingly is an unusual gift
C. quite a few people can visualize faces they have seen
D. few people can give exact details of the appearance of a face
2. What the author feels strange about is that _______.
A. people have the tremendous ability to recognize more than 1,000 faces
B. people don't think much of the problem of how and why we acquire the ability to recognize and
     remember faces
C. people don't realize how essential and valuable it is for them to have the ability to recognize faces
D. people have been arguing much over the way people recognize and remember faces
3. What is the first suggested explanation of the origin of the ability?
A. It is one of the characteristics peculiar to human beings.
B. It is acquired soon after birth.
C. It is something we can do from the very moment we are born.
D. It is learned from our environment and experiences.
4. This passage seems to emphasize that ______.
A. the ability to recognize individuals is dependent on other senses as well as sight
B. sight is indispensable (必需的) to recognizing individuals
C. the ability to recognize faces is a special inborn ability of the brain
D. the importance of the ability of recognizing faces is fully appreciated by people.
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Imperial College
London
Tanaka Business School
10 New Professors, Readers, Senior Lecturers or Lecturers
Imperial College is among the top ten universities of the world, according to the 2008 Times Higher
Education.
Having doubled its size in the last 4 years and hired world-class scholars during that period, Imperial's
Tanaka Business School wishes to make a further 10 academic appointments in its drive to become a
leading research-led business school. Only applicants who have published in top international magazines
will be considered. Excellent ones from any field of management are welcome, but the school particularly wishes to appoint in the fields of marketing, technology management and healthcare.
International salaries will be offered.
An application form and further details may be downloaded from www.imperial.ac.uk/tanaka (About
Us, job opportunities).
An application form, 2 of your best papers should be sent to tbs.applications@imperial.ac.uk.
First review of application will be on 2 April 2009.
1. Why are 10 appointments to be made?
A. To teach some new subjects．
B. To guide students in reading．
C. To make Tanaka Business School a leading research- led business school.
D. To make Imperial College among the top 10 universities of the world．
2. "Readers" in the 4th line probably refer to _____.
A. school newspaper editors  
B. senior university teachers    
C. college graduates          
D. librarians
3. Which of the following statements does NOT agree with the passage?
A. Imperial College offers good salary．
B. Imperial College is a famous university in the world．
C. Imperial College is very strict with job hunters．
D. Imperial College is a business school．
4. According to the passage, if one wants to apply for a job in Imperial College, he/she should _____.
A. post all the material before 2 April 2009
B. prepare enough personal material in ink
C. first visit www.imperial.ac.uk/tanka
D. write 2 essays  
完形填空。
      Have you ever imagined that you could be cloned (克隆) like Dolly,the sheep,in the not too distant
future?
     The news that a human embryo (胚胎) has been   1   cloned for the first time has caused mixed reactions(反应).
     The   2    was carried out by scientists from the Advanced Cell Technology Inc(ACT),in Massachusetts,US. The group   3    the news on November 25.
      This is not a cloned human being. "A   4    is alive,it walks,it breathes,"said Jamie Grifo,an expert on the study of cloning at New York University School of Medicine.
     "This is a set of cells in a lab that will be used to   5    someone's life."
     Such research could lead to treatment for   6    such as heart disease,AIDS and even cancer,  7 
scientists.
     Despite high hopes from other scientists,the news   8    concerns immediately from religious and political
leaders. Several   9   in the US do not allow human cloning. President George W.Bush also made it clear
that he is   10    any type of human cloning. However, the   11  at ACT said they have no interest at present
in developing an early embryo into   12  .
     Animals have been cloned repeatedly since Dolly,the sheep,   13  in 1997.And there were no real
technical   14    to stand in the way of scientists making a cloned human embryo.
     This time the research group used traditional cloning technology with a human   15  . 16 it was given
DNA from an adult cell,the egg began to   17  .  18    it was stopped from becoming a baby-at a stage in
which it was   19    a ball of cells. The   20    technology has been used to clone sheep,cattle and monkeys.
(     )1. A. in failure    
(     )2. A. research      
(     )3. A. made known    
(     )4. A. cell          
(     )5. A. save          
(     )6. A. patients      
(     )7. A. according to  
(     )8. A. beat          
(     )9. A. countries      
(     )10. A. for          
(     )11. A. scientists    
(     )12. A. a baby        
(     )13. A. lived        
(     )14. A. questions    
(     )15. A. egg          
(     )16. A. Before        
(     )17. A. grow          
(     )18. A. And          
(     )19. A. yet          
(     )20. A. different     		B. never      
B. report      
B. made        
B. person      
B. kill        
B. health      
B. including  
B. lost        
B. nations    
B. against    
B. president  
B. a man      
B. appeared    
B. affairs    
B. bless      
B. After      
B. die        
B. But        
B. still      
B. usual       		C. successfully  
C. works          
C. said          
C. man            
C. cure          
C. diseases      
C. besides        
C. raised        
C. peoples        
C. researching for
C. people        
C. a woman        
C. turned        
C. business      
C. meat          
C. While          
C. change        
C. However        
C. not            
C. ordinary       		D. not          
D. task          
D. had          
D. clone (克隆人)
D. treat        
D. things        
D. argued        
D. missed        
D. states        
D. praising      
D. research      
D. a white man  
D. was no more  
D. problems      
D. cell          
D. And          
D. appear        
D. Yet          
D./              
D.same          
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     American beekeeping operations have been hit hard by what scientists call colony collapse
disorder(C.C.D.). Almost half of their worker bees have disappeared during the past season.
C.C.D. has also been reported in Israel, Europe and South America. Bees fly away from the hive
and never return. Sometimes they are found dead; other times they are never found. Many crops
and trees depend on pollination (授粉) by bees to help them grow.
     A new report says virus may be at least partly responsible for the disorder in honey bee colonies
in the United States. This virus is called Israeli acute paralysis virus. It was first identified in Israel
in 2004. Ian Lipkin at Columbia University in New York and a team reported the new findings in
Science magazine. Doctor Lipkin says the virus may not be the only cause. He says it may work
with other causes to produce the collapse disorder.
     The team found the virus in colonies with the help of a map of honey bee genes that was published
last year. They examined thirty colonies affected by the disorder. They found evidence of the virus
in twenty-five of them, and in one healthy colony. The next step is further testing of healthy hives.
     The researchers suggested that the United States may have imported the disorder in bees from
Australia. They say the bees may carry the virus but not be affected.
     The idea is that unlike many American bees, the ability of Australian bees to fight disease has no
t been hurt by the varroa mite(全球性的蜂虱). This insect attacks honey bees, which could make
the disorder more likely to affect a hive. Australian bee producers reject these suspicions.
     And some researchers suspect that bee production in the United States is down mainly because
of the weather. Honey bees gather nectar(花蜜) from flowers and trees. The sweet liquid gives them
food and material to make honey. But cold weather this spring in the Midwest reduced the flow of
nectar in many flowers. Many bees may have starved. Dry weather in areas of the country could
also be playing a part.
     Wayne Esaias is a NASA space agency scientist who keeps bees in his free time. He lives in
central Maryland, where he has found that flowers are blooming a month earlier than they did in
1970, which may be partly responsible for the disorder. Wayne Esaias is organizing a group of
beekeepers to document nectar flow around the country.
1. The researchers found the virus ______.
A. with the help of colony collapse disorder
B. by researching the causes of bee death
C. with the help of a map of honey bee genes
D. with the help of a scientist of NASA
2. What is the passage mainly about?
A. American beekeeping industry has been strongly influenced by the bee disorder.
B. Studies are being carried out on the causes of the bee disorder, but questions remain.
C. How the causes of the bee disorder in U.S have been found.
D. The bee production in U.S is down because of Israeli acute paralysis virus.
3. How many possibilities may be involved in the bee disorder according to the passage?
A. Three.
B. Four.
C. Five.
D. Six.
4. We can infer from the passage that ______.
A. Israeli acute paralysis virus should be responsible for the disorder
B. the solution to the bee disorder will be found eventually
C. American bees are more likely to defend themselves than Australian bees
D. the crop and plant production in U.S may be influenced by the bee disorder
阅读理解。
     The iPad is an Apple tablet computer. The device sits somewhere between a laptop and a
smart phone, according to Apple's chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, and does certain things better
than both of them, like surfing the Web, reading e-books and playing videos. The iPad went on
sale on April 3, 2010, and Apple said it had shipped 500,000 units in the first week. The handheld
device puts Apple on a direct collision course with the Kindle from Amazon, which Mr. Jobs ever
considered as pioneering the category.
     It is common knowledge that media companies hope the iPad will finally lead to available way
for them to charge for news, books and other materials. The half-inch thick, 1.5-pound device
features a 9.7-inch multi-touch screen and is powered by a customized(订制的)Apple microchip,
which is called A4. It has been designed with an exposed screen and without a camera or separate
keyboard. The iPad has the same operating system as the iPhone and also has access to its 140,000
applications.
     The price of the device starts at $499 for the most basic model, with a Wi-Fi wireless connection.
More expensive models with more memory and with 3G wireless access will cost $629 to $829,
depending on storage size.
     Because Apple is attempting to popularize a new kind of computing device, acceptance among
consumers is expected to be slower than with previous Apple devices. Critics assume that some
buyers are waiting for future versions of the iPad to appear, perhaps with a camera or USB ports
(端口).
     On its first day on sale, iPad users downloaded more than one million applications from the
company's AppStore and more than 250,000 electronic books from its iBookstore. A new wave
of apps is expected in response to the iPad. For an application developer, having an application
accepted for a highly desired Apple product means reaching a passionate group of consumers.
The potential income is huge: the apps market for the iPhone and iPod Touch alone is already
worth a billion dollars a year in sales.
1. In Mr Job's opinion, the iPad              .
A. is a standard computer
B. is better than a laptop in any function
C. helps Apple to beat Amazon
D. is a "revolutionary" product between a laptop and a smart phone
2. Which of the following is NOT true of the iPad?
A. It is expected to benefit media companies.  
B. It has a lot of similar features to a laptop.
C. It has a virtual keyboard.                
D. It has the fastest Apple microchip.
3. The different prices of the iPad are determined by              .
A. the size of the screen
B. the size of the memory
C. the speed of the microchip
D. the Wi-Fi wireless connection
4. What do we know from the fourth paragraph?
A. Some consumers hope for an iPad with more functions.
B. Buyers can improve their iPads with USB devices.
C. The iPad is basically different from conventional computers.
D. The iPad is accepted faster than former Apple products.
5. It is implied in the passage that              .
A. people may download any application from the App Store
B. people would prefer to buy an iPad rather than an iPhone
C. owning an Apple product means that you will be respected
D. the Apple company will make more profit from the iPad
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