WASHINGTON, March 13—When 17-year-old Mary Masterman set out to build a spectrograph（摄谱仪）, she knew it would be no easy task. The device, an instrument used to identify characteristics of different kinds of molecules, can cost thousands of dollars, and Mary was building on a budget. “I wanted to build one that was lower costing so it would be more available to anyone interested in spectrography（摄谱术）,” Mary said.

A senior at Westmoore High School in Oklahoma City, Mary built the spectrograph at home for $300, and her project won the top prize of a $100,000 scholarship in the Intel Science Talent Search Monday night in Washington. “The most challenging part was trying to get it to work,” said Mary, who said she hoped to attend Stanford or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

“I had to keep coming up with creative ways to adjust or change something,” she said．“It took three months to build and another three months before it actually functioned properly.” Mary said she chose to build a spectrograph because of its many applications in forensics（法医检查）, medicine and artwork analysis.

Some 1,700 students entered this year’s contest, and 40 finalists were chosen, all of whom won a laptop computer and a cash prize. The finalists were almost equally divided by sex. Six women were among the top 10．The second-place winner was John Pardon, 17, of Chapel Hill, N.C., who researched the unfolding of simple closed curves. He won a $75,000 scholarship. Dmitry Vaintrob, 18, from South Eugene High School in Eugene, Ore., won the third-place, a $50,000 scholarship, for a mathematics project exploring loop homology.

New York produced 12 finalists, more than any other state. Two New Yorkers placed in the top 10．Elizabeth Marincola, president of Science Service, the nonprofit group that administers the contest, said winners had a certain “spark”. “They have a deep passion for their research,” Ms. Marincola said.

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?

Altogether Mary spent 6 months to build a cheap spectrograph which could work with real functions.

3．What was the final result of the contest? And what conclusion can we draw from the contest result? (Please answer within 30 words.)

4．Translate the underlined sentence in the fourth paragraph into Chinese.

根据划线部分给出的首字母补全对话。

Li Hua: David, I came across the phrase “the gap year” when I read a newspaper article about

education in the UK. What is “the gap year”?

David: Well, I’m (1 ) a         in the gap year now. After getting away from all of those (2 )t        , papers and presentations, many students find they need to take a little break, for an (3 )e        year.  When I (4 )g         from middle school three months ago, I decided to take a year (5)o         before going to university. There are about 200,000 “gapers” every year, 130,000 of (6)w        have just finished with middle school.                          

Li Hua:  So you are one (7)a         them. But what do you usually do in the gap year?

David:     Often students use the gap year to travel around the world, learning foreign languages,

meeting different peoples and (8)e        different cultures. And that’s why I have

been here.

Li Hua:  But, do you miss your parents?

David:     “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.” (9)T         away from home, I feel (10)

c       to them.

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Dear Editor Zhang,

I am glad to write to you on English study. In my opinion, it is necessary for Chinese to learn English.

Best wishes.

                                                        Yours sincerely

                                                                Li Juan

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

例：have       A．gave       B．save       C．hat       D．made

答案是C。

1. observe         A. spiritual     B. design         C. ensure     D. consist

2. relate        A. debate      B. specialist      C. regular      D. net

3. proof         A. foot            B. blood          C. look            D. roof

4. quiz              A. island        B. fighter         C. possible           D. list

5. cash             A. cell              B. absence      C. act            D. physician

Thirteen seconds later, McGrady made ________ 3-point play to give the Rockets ________ lead again

A. a; /                          B. a; the                C. /; a                   D. /; the

— Will we win the game?

—________. We are the best.

A. Not all all          B. You are right     C. It’s hard to say        D. No doubt about it

He is always so dreamy! It’s time for us to bring him back to ________.

A. practice                   B. reality               C. society             D. life

The reason why she was criticized was ________ she had played a wrong part in the event.

A. that                  B. because            C. why                 D. since

It seems terribly deserted with the whole yard ________ by fallen leaves.

A. covering           B. being covered    C. covered             D. to cover

I’d like to work with ________ keeps his promises and is strict about his work.

A. who                 B. whom              C. whoever           D. no matter who