The deadly earthquake and tsunami (海啸) that struck Japan on March 11 damaged two nuclear power stations. Officials are now working to prevent dangerous radiation from poisoning the air in the area surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi plant. The Japanese government has ordered people living within 12 and a half miles of the plant to evacuate, and asked those living 12 and a half to 20 miles away to stay indoors.

Nuclear power plants create energy using a chemical reaction that produces large amounts of heat. Reactors(反应堆)in Japan have many long, thin rods, called fuel rods(棒), which must be kept cool.

If the reactor’s fuel rods aren’t cooled, the reaction can burn out of control. That’s what happened at the two Japanese plants after the quake caused a power failure and the cooling systems malfunctioned(发生故障). This overheating could cause radiation to escape and sicken many people.

Japan’s 54 nuclear reactors are built to withstand the many small or moderate earthquakes the country faces each year. But Friday’s earthquake was one of the most severe earthquakes ever recorded.

People exposed to unsafe levels of radiation have a higher than normal risk of getting cancer. The Japanese government has been distributing potassium iodide(碘化钾)pills to people in the surrounding areas to protect those who may have come in contact with radiation from the power plant. The pills flood the body with healthy potassium iodide. The potassium iodide works to crowd out “bad” iodine in the body that may have been poisoned by radiation.

On Tuesday morning, 750 workers left the Fukushima Daiichi plant. However, 50 workers stayed behind to use sweater to cool the fuel rods. These dedicated employees are risking their own lives to save many others.

On Thursday, officials used helicopters, fire trucks, and water cannons to spray water on the reactors to cool the fuel rods. But it’s not clear whether these efforts were successful. Officials are now working on a power line to restore electricity to the plant. They hope this will help restart the plant’s cooling system and stop the fuel rods from leaking radiation.

1.The underlined word “evacuate” in Paragraph 1 probably means            .

2.What can we learn from the text?

3.In the last paragraph, the author mainly states            .

4.This text is most probably taken from            .

A study led by Professor Mark Weiser of Tel Aviv University and the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer Hospital has determined that young men who smoke are likely to have lower IQs than their non-smoking peers (同龄人). Tracking 18-to 21-year-old men enlisted in the Israeli army in the largest ever study of its kind, he has been able to demonstrate an important connection between the number of cigarettes young males smoke and their IQ.

The average IQ for a non-smoker was about 101, while the smokers’ average was more than seven IQ points lower, at about 94, the study determined. The IQs of young men who smoked more than a pack a day were lower still, at about 90. An IQ score in a healthy population of such young men, with no mental disorders(心理疾病), falls within the range of 84 to 116.

An addiction that doesn’t discriminate(歧视)

“In the health profession, we’ve generally thought that smokers are most likely the kind of people who have grown up in difficult neighborhoods, or who’ve been given less education at good schools,” says Weiser, whose study was reported in a recent version of the journal, Addiction, “But because our study included subjects with various socio-economic backgrounds, we’ve been able to rule out socio-economics as a major factor. The government might want to rethink how it arranges its educational resources on smoking.

Making the results more significant, the study also measured effects in twin brothers. In the case where one twin smoked, the non-smoking twin registered a higher IQ on average.

Although a lower IQ may suggest a greater risk for smoking addiction, the representing data on IQ and smoking found that most of the smokers investigated in the study had IQs within the average range, nevertheless.

In the study, researchers took data from more than 20,000 men before, during and after their time in the military. All men in the study were considered in good health, since pre-screening(筛选的)measures for suitability in the army had already been taken. The researchers found that around 28 percent of their samples smoked one or more cigarettes a day, 3 percent considered themselves ex-smokers, and 68 percent said they never smoked.

“People on the lower end of the average IQ tend to display poorer overall decision-making skills when it comes to their health,” says Weiser. He adds that his finding can help address serious concern among heath counsellors at grade and high schools.

1.The study led by Professor Mark Weiser shows that            .

2.According to the passage, a smoking man’s IQ is most likely to be            .

3.What can be learned from the passage?

4.What is the meaning of the underlined part “An addiction that doesn’t discriminate”?

阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子，并将答案写在答题卡上的相应题号后。

1.With so much work on hand, you                            to see the movie last night. (go)

手头有这么多工作，你昨晚本不应该去看电影的。

2.I hear your new boss is not                            , so you should be more careful. (get)

听说你的新老板不容易相处，因此你应该更小心些。

3.You have no idea                             during the last few months, which has affected me for a long time. (go)

你不知道在过去的几个月里我经历了些什么, 而这些影响了我很长时间。

4.Excited by his move to London, John                             begin his new life. (wait)

约翰因为要搬到伦敦去而激动不已，迫不及待要开始他的新生活。

5.                           of the skill, you will find it easier to solve such problems. (once)

一旦你掌握了这门技能，你会发现解决这些问题更容易。

6.She was                             when her daughter didn’t come home on time. (more)

她女儿没有按时回家时，与其说她生气倒不如说她担心。

7.He expressed his gratitude to his head teacher, without                            , he wouldn’t have made such great progress in his studies. (help)

他向他的班主任表达了感激之情。没有他的帮助，他不可能在学习上取得这么大的进步。

8.This is the second time that he                             for speeding this month. (fine)

这是他这个月第二次因超速而被罚款了。

9.But the one million people of the city,                             these events, were asleep as usual that night. (think)

但是，唐山市的一百万居民几乎没有把这些情况当回事，当天晚上照常睡着了。

10.Was it on a lonely island                             one month after the boat went down. (save)

他是不是沉船一个月之后在一座孤岛上获救的？

现在，越来越多的大陆游客可以赴台旅游，而日月潭作为台湾的主要景点，很多人并不真正了解，请按照以下要点提示，写一篇介绍日月潭（Sun Moon Lake）的英语短文,不少于110词。

1. 日月潭位于台湾的南投县，是台湾最著名的风景区，也是台湾最大的天然湖泊。

2. 湖中央有一岛屿把湖分成两部分，湖的东北部分圆圆的像太阳，而湖的西南部分弯弯的像月牙，故为日月潭。

3. 日月潭处在山地与西部平原之间，受3000万年前喜马拉雅（the Himalayas）造山运动的影响，由玉山（Mt.Yu）和阿里山（Mt.A-li）之间的断裂（ruptured）盆地积水而成。             

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。

1.hear           A. nearly           B. search          C. bear              D. heart

2.change A. machine       B. headache             C. technique    D. research

3.surprise   A. police       B. apologize          C. bridge       D. children

4.safely    A. base              B. season         C. Asia               D. usual

5.museum        A. subject         B. true              C. huge        D. busy

The library from __________we borrow books will be rebuilt next year.

A. that               B. which         C. where               D. whom

The day came finally _____ I was given an opportunity to act in the play.

A. when             B. in that        C. which            D. in which

The number of workers _______________2000.

A. has reached           B. have reached      C. is reached                   D. has reached to

With a lot of homework _________, I had to stay at home all day.

A. done                B. doing             C. to do                      D. being done

 You should have ____ good knowledge of English if you want to find a job here. Because English is the  working language in_______ most international trade centers.

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