―  61

― Of course. Different jobs need people with different characters.

― Could you give me an example?

― Yeah.  62  However, an extremely independent one isn’t

― Almost right! And I think there is some moral (道德的) conduct all people should have at work.

―  63

― Respect, duty, fairness, honesty and so on.

― It seems that they are all important. But it’s really hard to have all of the good moral conduct.

―  64   But firstly, you should treat the person whom you work with with kindness and respect. Then you should learn to be brave and careful.

―  65

― Yes.

― If so, I’ll have a try.

A．No doubt about it.

B．What is it?

C．Absolutely! We must be dependable.

D．You’d better get along well with everyone.

E．Do you think the character plays an important role in one’s career?

F．Then I’ll be rated(评价) as a priceless diamond by my boss?

G．You see, an easy-ging person is suitable for teamwork.

Before the earthquake in China’s Sichuan Province, 38-year-old Sarah Bexell was working to develop a new environmental consciousness(意识) among Chinese people and to encourage them to protect wildlife and habitat-in particular, that of the giant panda.

Bexell, an American who is the director of conservation education at the Chengdu Research Base for Giant Panda Breeding. Bexell has spent a lot of time teaching young people the value of protecting the environment.

“The younger generation in China can afford to care,” Bexell said before the earthquake. “They’re not starving. Thay have food, good jobs, and access to education.”

Now,  Bexell worries about the people she has been working with and who are up in the mountains. She doesn’t know whether they and their families are safe. And she knows the work to which she is devoted has become more urgent during the immediate crisis.

Bexell and her Chinese colleagues have been trying to spread the message that the tourist boom, population growth, and pillaging (掠夺) of resources form terrible threats to the environment.

There are stories of pandas wandering out of the forest and into villages. This is a troubling sign for what should be a rare species.

To make matters worse, there are fears that with the earthquake and landslides ,bamboo could massively die off. That’s the main food source for the giant pandas, whose habitat was already damaged.

In April, Bexell took Block way up a twisting mountain road into the Longxi-Hongkou National Nature Reserve. The reserve was set up in 1997 to protect the giant panda and its habitat. It was very near the epicenter(震中) of the earthquake, so this area suffered severe damage.

58．Bexell is devoted to________ in Sichuan Province.

A．protecting giant pandas                    B．environment-protection education

C．research on people’s lives              D．research on the environment after earthquakes

59．The main threats to the wildlife and the environment are the following EXCEPT ________.

A．population growth                                                 B．tourist development 

C．bamboo’s massive death because of bad weather    D．the overuse of resources

60．According to what Bexell says, ________.

A．we should care for animals since we have enough food and clothing

B．many young people in China are usually selfish

C．rich people should spend more on young people’s education

D．animal and environmental protection needs a lot of money and time

Have you ever dreamed of visiting a planet in the Milk Way (银河系)？While the trip sounds exciting, it would take years and years to reach your destination. So in the future, bedtime for astronauts may be more than a few hours of regular shut-eye. They would have to sleep for years.

European researchers are now conducting hibernation(冬眠) experiments. The study may help them understand whether humans could ever sleep through the years it would take for a  spaceflight to distant planets. “If there was an effective technology, it could make deep-space travel a reality,” said Mark Ayre of the European Space Agency last month.

What seems like science fiction is not completely unlikely. Researchers have been able to use chemicals to put living cells into a sleep-like state. They have now moved on to small, non-hibernating mammals like rats.

A major challenge is the fact that cells can be very simple systems, whereas body organs are far more complex. “It’s like moving from a simple Apple computer to a supercomputer,” said Marco Biggiogera, a hibernation researcher at Italy’s University of Pavia. Just like bears and frogs, the hibernation of human beings would cause a person’s metabolism (新陈代谢) to lower so they would need less energy.

Medical research, however, is just half of a spaceflight hibernation system. There is the challenge of designing a suitable protective shelter(栖身所). Such a shelter would provide the proper environment for hibernation, such as the proper temperature It would also have to monitor (监控) life functions and serve the physiological needs of the hibernator.

According to Ayre, the six-person human Outer Planets Exploration Mission to jupiter’s moon (木星的卫星) Callisto, could be an opportunity to use human hibernation. The mission aims to send six humans on a five-year flight to Callisto, where they will spend 30 days, in 2045.

54．According to the article, the hibernation research ________.

A．is just an idea   　　　　　　　                 B．is always a science fiction

C．has already finished successfully   　           D．has made some progress

55．There are ________ major challenges facing scientists who study hibernation.

A．two  　　    B．three  　　           C．four  　　      D．five

56．The first use of the hibernation technology ________ the six-person human Outer Planets Exploration Mission to jupiter’s moon Callisto.

A．must he       B．has been planned for    C．is certain to be    D．may be

57．What is the best title for the article?

A．Hibernation Study for Space Travel  　         B．Welcome to Our Space Travel

C．To Hibernate, to Live Longer   　　             D．Welcome to Milk Way

Space is a dangerous place, not only because of meteors(流星), but also because of rays from the sun and other stars. The atmosphere again acts as our protective blanket on the earth. Light gets through, and this is necessary for plants to make the food which we eat. Heat, too, makes our environment suitable to live. Various kinds of rays come through the air from outer space, but enormous quantities of radiation from the sun are screened off. As soon as men leave the atmosphere they are exposed to this radiation but their spacesuits or the walls of their spacecraft, if they are inside, do prevent a lot of radiation damage.

Radiation is the greatest known danger to explorers in space. The unit of radiation is called “rem”. Scientists have reason to think that a man can put up with far more radiation than 0.1 rem without being damaged; the figure of 60 rems has been agreed on. The trouble is that it is extremely difficult to be sure about radiation damage a person may feel perfectly well, but the cells of his or her sex organs may be damaged, and this will not be discovered until the birth of deformed(畸形的)children or even grandchildren. Missions of the Apollo flights have had to cross belts of high radiation and, during the outward and return journeys, the Apollo crew accumulated a large amount of rems. So far, no dangerous amounts of radiation have been reported, but the Apollo missions have been quite short. We simply do not know yet how men are going to get on when they spend weeks and months outside the protection of the atmosphere, working in a space laboratory. Drugs might help to decrease the damage done by radiation, but no really effective ones have been found so far.

49．According to the first paragraph, the atmosphere is necessary to man because of the following reason EXCEPT________

A．protecting him against the harmful rays from space

B．providing sufficient light for plant growth

C．suppling the heat necessary for human survival

D．screening off the falling meteors

50．We learn from the passage that ________

A．exposure to even tiny amounts of radiation is fatal

B．the effect of exposure to radiation is slow in coming

C．radiation is avoidable in space exploration

D．astronauts in spacesuits needn’t worry about radiation damage

51．The harm radiation that has been done to the Apollo crew members ________

A．is insignificant   B．is enormous   C．seems overestimated  D．remains unknown

52．It can be inferred from the passage that________

A．the Apollo mission was very successful

B．the protection from space radiation is no easy job

C．astronauts may possibly have deformed children or grandchildren

D．radiation is not a threat to well-protected space explorers

53．Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Space is dangerous only because of meteors.

B．Explorers in space have to avoid the damage from radiation

C．We have got effective ways to treat illnesses caused by radiation.

D．The atmosphere doesn’t screen off radiation

PENRICE

COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Cornwall County Counicl

We Need Two

ASSISANT HEADTEACHERS

From January 2006

L13―17(£44,703―£49,314)

Penrice Community College is a highly regarded and successful 11-16 specialist languages college. Following the recent appointment of a new headteacher  we’re restructuring the leadership team to create two new roles.

One post will involve leading teaching teams with responsibility for developing curricula(课程) and time-tabling.

The other post will be leading student based teams and responsibility for student learing outcomes and the removal of barriers to student success such as poor attendance or disaffection.

Penrice Community College is:

?A school with 1,350 wonderful students

?High achieving with results well above average

?Mentioned twice in HMCl’s outstanding schools list

?A British Council International School

?Situated in a beautiful part of mid-Cornwall

All enquires for information and application packs should be made to Danielle Eyres on 01726―72613 or at secretary@penricornmvall .sch.uk

Closing date for applications is Tuesday October 4^th at noon. Interviews will be held on Monday 17^th and Tuesday 18^th October 2005.

45．The underlined word “restructuring’ probably means ________.

A．formally telling sb to do    　　　　　       B．Joining the two parts together

C．rebuilding sth and making it work again      D．extending the size of sth

46．The purpose of the above passage is to ________

A．introduce the advantages of a school  

B．report the appointment of a new head teacher

C．call on more students to go to school  

D．advertise for new assistant headteachers

47．The two new posts are required to do all the following EXCEPT ________.

A．stop students missing classes                    B．get students interested in learning

C．lead students-based teams                         D．arrange new curricula

48．HMCI is probably the name of ________.

A．an educational organization                        B．a school leader

C．a political party                                        D．a news reporter

Robert Spring, a 19^th century forger (伪造者), was so good at his profession that hs was able to make his living for 15 years by selling false signatures of famous Americans. Spring was born in England in 1838 and arrived in Philadelphia in 1858 to open a bookstore. At first he prospered(繁荣)by selling his small but genuine collection of early US autographs (亲笔签名). Discovering his ability at copying handwriting he began imitating the signatures of George Washington and Benjimin Franklin and writing them on the title pages of old books. To lessen the chance of detection (被发现). He sent his forgeries to England and Canada for sale, Forgers have a hard time selling products. A forger cannot approach a respectable buyer but must deal with people who don’t have much knowledge in the field. Forgers have many ways of making their works look real. For example, they buy old books and use the aged paper of the title page, and they can treat paper and ink with chemicals.

In Spring’s time, right after the Civil War, Britain was still fond of the southern states, so Spring invented a respectable young lady known as Miss Fanny Jackson, the only daughter of General “Stonewall” Jackson. For several years Miss Fanny’s financial problems forced her to sell a great number of letters and manuscripts (手稿) belonging to her famous father. Spring had to work very hard to satisfy the demand. However, all this activity did not prevent Spring from dying in poverty, leaving sharp-eyed experts the difficult task of separating his forgeries from the originals.

41．Robert Spring spent 15 years ________.

A．running a bookstore in Philadelphia                    B．as owners of old books

C．selling real signatures of famous Americans        D．as a forger

42．Why did Spring sell his false autographs in England and Canada?

A．There was less chance that his forgeries would be discovered there.

B．The prices were much higher in England and Canada.

C．There was a greater demand there than in America.

D．Britan was Spring’s birthplace.

43．After the Civil War there was a great demand in Britain for ________

A．Civil War battle plans                       

B．southern manuscripts and letters

C．the signatures of George Washington and Ben Franklin   

D．southern money

44．Which of the following about Miss Fanny Jackson is TRUE?

A．She was Robert Spring’s customer.

B．She was an imaginary person created by Spring.

C．She was a little-known girl who sold her father’s papers to make money.

D．She was the only daughter of General Stonewall Jackson.

As the pace of life continues to increase, we are fast losing the art of relaxation. 21  you are in the habit of rushing through life, being on the go from morning till night, it is hard to  22   down. But relaxation is  23   for a healthy mind and body.

Stress is a  24   part of everyday life and there is no way to  25  it. In fact, it is not the bad thing that it is often supposed to be. A  26  amount of stress is important to provide motivation and give  27  to life. It is only when the stress gets out of control  28  it can lead to poor performance and  29  health.

The amount of stress a person can bear  30  very much on the individual. Some people are not afraid of stress, and such  31  are obviously chief material for managerial.(管理的) responsibilities. Other people lose heart at first  32  of unusual difficulties. When exposed to stress, in  33 form , we react both physically and mentally. In fact we make a choice between “34  and fight”. And in more ancient days the choices made the  35  between life and death. The crisis we meet today are  36  to be so extreme, but however little the stress is, it requires the same response. It is when such a reaction  37  a long time, through continued exposure to stress, that health becomes  38  . Such serious conditions as high blood pressure and heart disease have established links with stress. 39  we cannot remove stress from our lives, we need to find ways to deal with it.

So what do you think of   40  ? What is your way to deal with it?

His studies on literature are very varied, ________ from Chinese literature to westurn literature.

A．ranges                        B．containing          C．ranging                D．covering

The person who ________ advantage of the girl ________ a disadvantage didn’t gain an advantage  ________ her .

A．made; in ; over             B．took; at ; on        C．took; at; over      D．made; at; over

On a ________ morning the little girl was found  ________ at the corner of the street.

A．freezing, freezing         B．freezing, frozen  C．frozen, frozen        D．frozen, freezing