Identifying young people with the potential to be great athletes has become a serious, business around the world. Many countries, including Australia, have sophisticated(复杂) programs for identifying and nurturing(培养) talent.

The AIS (Australian Institute of Sport) already runs a program that identifies potential winners starting from the age of 12 based on their physical and physiological(生理的) abilities.

Could genetics improve these programs? The problem is that no one gene test is ever going to do an accurate job of identifying someone with the physical attributes of a sporting champion, says Professor North.

"We can think of the elite athlete as what I'd call a complex phenotype(表现型)," she says. “There are going to be a large number of different genes involved. Any one single test is unlikely to be highly predictive.”

Professor Peter Fricker, director of the AIS, agrees. Although he is intrigued in the possibilities of genetic testing, he says using such tests to identify athletes would be difficult. "The feeling I have is that it won't be that easy," he says. "Talent selection is not just about your genes."

Since 2004, the AIS has been forbidden by government from any involvement in genetic work, including genetic testing. But Professor Fricker thinks that is likely to change in the near future. "There's been a shift in view more recently," he says.

When it does, the AIS will resume its work on the genetics of sports performance, Professor Fricker says. They would be particularly interested in looking for more genes that might help shape elite performance, but also for genes that increase the risk of injury.

Last year, the Human Genetics Society of Australasia issued a position statement on gene testing for sport, after concerns that people could use tests to steer children into particular sports.

“The Human Genetics Society thinks there are not enough data to use these tests for determining what sport kids should do,” said Professor David Thorburn, president of the society.

He stressed that genetic tests should not be performed on children, except in very specific medical circumstances.

57．The aim of the AIS’s program is to        .

A．predict how genes are connected with injuries

B．find potential great athletes

C．find out what qualities a professor has through gene tests

D．turn an athlete into a champion by transferring genes

58．By saying “Talent selection is not just about your genes”, Fricker means         .

A．effort is more important than genes in most cases

B．you can’t choose an athlete just depending on genes

C．to research one’s genes takes a long time

D．most people don’t believe in genetic tests

59．The underlined word “resume” in Para. 7 can be replaced by              .

A．stop B．complete   C．reduce      D．continue.

60．What’s Professor David Thorburn’s attitude towards genetic tests?

A．Genetic tests have a negative effect on children.

B．Genetic tests, under certain conditions, can be conducted on children.

C．Genetic tests can reduce the risk of athletes’ injuries.

D．People could use genetic tests to decide what sport kids should take.

第二节：根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

—I’m standing in the center of Plymouth, the capital of Montserrat, where just one week ago, a volcanic eruption took place. With me is Savage, the officer of the island. Savage, thank you for talking to us.

—You’re Welcome.

—  61 

—Well, the volcano erupted, and the ash and lava poured down the mountain towards the sea. And there are several villages in path.

—  62 

—No. Luckily, we had plenty of warning and told people who lived in the path of the ash and lava to leave the island. We managed to get half the population to another island before the eruption took place.

—  63 

—Eleven thousand people live here and about six thousand people have left.

—  64 

—The most dangerous place is between the volcano and the sea. There are a lot of villages there.

Sadly, hundreds of houses caught fire when the alva reached them.

—  65 

—Thankfully, no one was killed.

E．Which area is the most dangerous?

F．That’s terrible. Was anybody hurt?

G．How many people live on the island?

第三部分：写作（共三节，满分55分）

第一节：单词拼写（共10小题，每题1分，满分10分）

66．She cried,         （撕扯）her newly bought skirt into pieces.

67．Children need lots of       （鼓励）when they are learning new things.

68．I don’t think the color on this TV is properly        （调整）.

69．Smoking is strictly       （禁止）in or near the gas station.

70．It’s very difficult to breathe at high      （海拔）.

71．He    （全神贯注）on what the teacher said, not noticing what happened outside the window.

72．Your work will be      （评价）by members of the management team.

73．The exercises are designed to     （增强）your arm muscles.

74．The game had to be     （放弃）due to bad weather.

75．She spent the afternoon     （漂浮）on her back in the pool.

第二节：短文改错（共10小题：每小题1.5分，满分15分）

Mr.Turner turned over in bed from time to time in last

night, for he was very excited to fall asleep. Yesterday morning, he   76__________

went to a big gardening company, knowing as Green fingers, for     77__________

a interview. Mr Turner, who liked to help his grandfather grow      78__________

flowers in the garden, looking forward to the job. When he got      79__________

to the company, he found there were so many people waiting       80__________

there that he had no ideas whether he could get the job. While       81__________

waited, he helped the workers there to remove the fallen trees      82__________

and clear the road. Unluckily, he was the only one who finally      83__________

got the job, so the manager decided to give the job to whoever he    84 __________

believed was helpful.                                       85 __________

第三节：书面表达（满分30分）

在2008年的“三鹿奶粉”事件中，不法商人在牛奶中添加有毒化学物质三氯氰胺，导致上万名婴儿身体受到伤害，甚至死亡。请你写一篇100词左右的英语短文来概论此事并提出建议，以杜绝此类事件再次发生。

参考词汇：奶粉milk powder，三氯氰胺melamine；制造商manufacture

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Look, the book still ____ where I ____ it the other day.

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______ surprised me most was the news ______ our team won.

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To our pleasure, his parents came to accept the fact ____.  

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______is mentioned above, the number of the students in senior schools is increasing.