The global energy crisis is approaching. What can we do? Here are some steps you can take.

   Cooling puts the greatest stress on your summer energy bill and the power grid(电网). Just as t tune-up for your car can improve your gas mileage, a yearly tune-up of your heating and cooling system can improve efficiency and comfort. Clean or replaces filters monthly or as needed.

   For central air conditioning systems and room air conditioners, look for the ENERGY STAR, the federal government’s symbol for energy efficiency. For central air, purchase the system with the highest possible Seasonal Energy Efficiency Raton. (SEER)

   Use energy-efficient ceiling fans either alone or with air conditioning. Ceiling fans do a great job of circulating air. When used with air conditioning, fans allow you to raise the thermostat(恒温器) and cut costs. Ceiling fans cool people, not rooms, so before you leave; turn off the ceiling fan.

Let a programmable thermostat! “remember for you” to automatically adjust the indoor climate with your daily and weekend patterns to reduce cooling bills by up to 10 percent. You can come home to a comfortable house without wasting energy and cresting pollution all day while you are at work.

 Try to make your home airtight enough to increase your comfort, make your home quieter and cleaner and reduce your cooling costs up to 20 percent.

 Gut your air conditioning load, and reduce pollution by planting planting leafy trees around your home and fixing reflective bricks on your roof.

 Close blinds or shades on south-and west-facing windows during the day, or fix shading equipment to avoid heat build-up.

  Turn off everything not in use: lights, TVs, computers. And use fluorescent bulbs(荧光灯), which provide bright, warm light while using at least two-thirds less energy, producing 70 percent less heat and lasting up to 10 times longer than incandescent bulbs(白炽灯).

 Drive the car that gets better gas mileage whenever possible if you own more than one vehicle. If you drive 12,500 miles a year, switching 10 percent of your trips from a car that gets 20 mils per gallon to one that gets 30 mpg will save you more than ￡65 per year.

 Carpool. The average U.S. commuter(乘车上班族) could save about ￡260 a year by sharing cars twice a week with two people in a car that gets 20.1 mpg---assuming the three passengers share the cost of gas.

According to the passage, the thermostat is used to ______.

A. make rooms quieter              B. control room temperature

C. turn off the air conditioner         D. reduce room air pollution

We can conclude from the passage that the author probably discourages ______.

A. planting leafy trees around your home

B. turning off the ceiling fan before you leave your house

C. keeping your south-facing windows open during the day

D. using fluorescent bulbs instead of incandescent bulbs

According to the passage, you can save fuel by ______.

A. using energy-efficient ceiling fans      B. sharing cars with others on workdays         

C. turning off everything not in use       D. reducing 10% of your car trips every year

This passage is mainly about ______.

A. energy-saving tips          B. fuel-saving tips         

C. do-it-yourself tips           D. environment-protecting tips

The English Corner in Zhongshan Park is where people      1.___________

go to practise their speaking English. Every Sunday afternoon       2.___________

they gather around, talk to each other in English. Among           3.___________

they are students, teachers, doctors, and so on. I first went to an     4.___________

English Corner when I was in Junior Grade Two. I went there on          5.___________

every Sunday and chat with some people in English. In the          6.___________

past three years I had never been absent. I’m sure I’ve made          7.___________

some progresses in my listening and speaking. And I have          8.___________

made many friends there. The English Comer is really good              9.___________

place. I hope that more friends will join in us.                    10.___________

改正下面短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在答题卡该行右边横线上画一个勾（√），请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

      2.原行没有错的不要改。

Yang Liwei was born from an ordinary family in Liaoning          1.____________

Province in 1965. He became the pilot in Chinese Air Force    2.____________

in 1987, spend 1,350 hours in the air. He has spent 5 years   3.____________

training to become a spaceman. He sent into space at 9 a.m on     4.____________

October 15th by China’s Shenzhou V spacecraft, that orbited   5.____________

the earth 14 times. He landed safe at 6:23 a.m the next day,   6.____________

making China the third country successfully sending a person     7.____________

into space before the former Soviet Union and the USA.          8.____________

Yang Liwei comes back to the earth after a 21-hour trip          9.____________

to space. In space Yang recorded to everything he saw and     10.___________

showed China’s national flag to the people watching on TV.

短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

改正下面短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在答题卡该行右边横线上画一个勾（√），请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

      2.原行没有错的不要改。

Dear Sue,

    Well, I am here in the Beijing! I'm staying at a            1.          .

 very comfortable hotel the same like ours in Britain and        2.          .

enjoy Chinese food, though I miss my English break

fast.                                                            3.          .

It has been very kind and helpful for everyone to               4.          .

help me everywhere. Yesterday I visited the Summer            5.          .

Palace where the Emperors were used to go in the                     6.          .

summers. Today I'm off to see the Great Wall,it is one            7.          .

of the wonders m the world. In a word, all are very               8.          .

interesting, so I do wish you could go to visit China.              9.          .

Hope everyone home is well.                                             10.          .

                                          Dan

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—20题各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

While attending a conference, I returned to my hotel room late one evening. The overhead light outside my door was burned out and I had  1  finding the keyhole. When I  2  to open the door, I  3  around the wall for a light switch. I found a plate where a switch was  4  installed... but no switch! 

Not discouraged easily, I remembered  5  a lamp by the bed when I deposited my luggage  6  in the day. I found the bed in the  7  and then the lamp, but when I switched it on, nothing  8 ! I thought that perhaps if I opened the curtains I might be able to use whatever light comes in from the  9  to find another lamp. So I  10  my way slowly across the room to the curtains and... no drawstring! I finally stumbled（跌跌撞撞地走）around  11  I found a desk lamp which actually  12 !

That evening I discovered in a whole new way just how dark the world  13  be and how   necessary light is! But even more necessary than  14  light is the light that shines from people --the light of  15  and faith. Because, for many people, the world is a dark and  16  place. For someone today just may be stumbling in discouragement or sadness or fear and in  17   of some light. So let your light shine. Whatever light you  18  may be a beacon of hope and encouragement. And if you feel that your light is  19  a candle in a forest remember -- there isn’t enough darkness in all the world to  20  the light of one small candle.

1. A. confidence  B. respect            C. adimiration       D. difficulty 

2. A. managed             B. failed               C. wished            D. meant

3. A. touched               B. felt                  C. sensed             D. looked  

4. A. already                B. never               C. still                  D. once 

5. A. equiping              B. producing        C. spotting           D. removing

6. A. later                   B. earlier              C. lower              D. upper

7. A. light            B. dark                C. room               D. corner 

8. A. happened             B. operated          C. fired                 D. developed

9. A. machine              B. street               C. room              D. car

10. A. wound              B. forced             C. made               D. lost

11. A. after                   B. until          C. while                D. since

12. A. helped               B. affected                 C. worked            D. inspired 

13. A. can                   B. shall                C. will                D. must

14. A. mental               B. psychological     C. electrical         D. physical  

15. A. existence           B. love                 C. truth                D. wisdom

16. A. lonely                 B. colourful           C. friendly            D. complex

17. A. short                 B. favour             C. face                       D. need   

18. A. make                 B. offer                C. take                 D. contribute

19. A. not more than    B. other than        C. no more than    D. rather than 

20. A. put out              B. give out           C. get over                 D. set up

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 similar to what Texas A＆M University researchers have been undertaking(负责) 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(氮). 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 and 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.

Chinese scientists said they grew an embryo 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(过程) 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.”

The aim of “Noah’s Ark” project is to_______. 

A. make effort 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

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

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

From the passage we know that _______. 

A. Kraemer and his team have succeeded in cloning a cat

B. scientists try to implant a panda’s egg into a tiger

C. Kraemer will work with Chinese scientists in clone researches

D. about two thousand of species will probably die out in about a century

Answer the following questions by using the information taken from a dictionary page. (You may read the questions first.) 

jaguar: n. a type of large, yellow-colored cat with black markings found in the southwestern region of the U. S. and in Central and South America.

jargon: 1. n. speech that doesn’t make sense. 2. n. an unknown language that seems strange or impossible to understand. 3. n. a language made up of two or more other languages: His jargon was a mixture of French and English. 4. n. the special vocabulary of a field or profession: Her report on computers was filled with jargon.

jaunt: 1. n. a trip taken for fun. 2. v. to go on a brief pleasant trip: We jaunted to the country last Saturday.

javelin: 1. n. a spear most commonly used as weapon or in hunting. 2. n. a lightweight metal or wooden spear that is thrown in track-and-field contests. 3. n. the contest in which a javelin is thrown. 4. v. to strike, as with a javelin.

jazz: 1. n. a type of music that originated in New Orleans and is characterized by rhythmic beats. 2. n. popular dance music influenced by jazz. 3. n. slang empty talk. 4. ad. of or like jazz: a jazz band, jazz records.

Jennet: n. a small Spanish horse.

Which meaning of the word javelin is used in the sentence below?

At the competition, Jack drew his arm back and threw the javelin 50 yards.

A. Definition 1                           B. Definition 2

C. Definition 3                            D. Definition 4

Which meaning of the word jargon is used in the sentence below?

Doctors often speak in medical jargon.

A. Definition 1                           B. Definition 2

C. Definition 3                            D. Definition 4

What does the word jazz mean in the following sentence?

Don’t give me that jazz, for I am a practical person.

A. rhythmic beats                 B. a type of music

C. a kind of dance                D. meaningless talk

The Japanese mask-maker keeps an eagle eye out for new masks. “I don’t see any face among Japanese politicians that would       the next US president’s, ”he said.

A. suit   B. fit   C. match   D. compare

Bruce Li was the first Chinese actor ___________ Chinese Kungfu ___________to the world.   A. to make; widely known    B. making; widely known  

C. made; to be widely known             D. making; be widely known

We experience different forms of the Sun’s energy every day. We can see its light  and feel its warmth. The Sun is the major source of evaporation (蒸发) of water from the oceans and lakes. Sunlight also provides the energy used by green plants to make their own food. These green plants then provide food for all organisms (生物) on the Earth.

Much of the energy that comes from the Sun never reaches the Earth’s surface. It is either reflected or absorbed by the gases in the upper atmosphere. Of the energy that reaches the lower atmosphere, 30% is reflected by clouds or the Earth’s surface. The remaining 70% warms the surface of the planet, causes water to evaporate, and provides energy for the water cycle and weather. Only a tiny part, approximately 0.023%, is actually used by green plants to produce food.

Many gases found in the atmosphere actually reflect heat energy escaping from the Earth’s surface back to the Earth. These gases act like the glass of a greenhouse in that they allow energy from the Sun to enter but prevent energy from leaving. They are therefore called greenhouse gases.

When sunlight strikes an object, some of the energy is absorbed and some is reflected. The amount reflected depends on the surface. For example, you’ve probably noticed how bright snow is when sunlight falls on it. Snow reflects most of the energy from the Sun, so it contributes to the low temperatures of winter. Dark-coloured surfaces, such as dark soil or forest, absorb more energy and help warm the surrounding air.

According to the passage, the root cause for weather changes on the Earth is ______.

   A. the atmosphere surrounding the Earth       B. water from oceans and lakes

   C. energy from the Sun   D. greenhouse gases in the sky

Only a small part of the Sun’s energy reaches the Earth’s surface because most of it _______________.

   A. absorbed by the clouds in the lower atmosphere

   B. reflected by the gases in the upper atmosphere

   C. lost in the upper and lower atmosphere

   D. used to evaporate water from the oceans and lakes

We learn from the passage that _______________.

   A. all living things on the Earth depend on the Sun for their food

   B. a forest looks dark in winter because it absorbs solar energy

   C. only 0.023% of the energy from the Sun is made use of on the Earth

   D. greenhouse gases allow heat energy to escape from the Earth’s surface