阅读理解：

　　Holidaymakers who are bored with baking beaches and overheated hotel rooms head for a big igloo．Swedish businessmen Nile Bergqvist delighted with its new hotel, the world's first igloo hotel．Built in a small town in Lapland, it has been attracting lots of visitors, but soon the fun will be over．

　　In two weeks'time Bergqvist's ice creation (作品) will be nothing than a pool of water．“We don't see it as a big problem,” he says．“We just look forward to replacing it．”

　　Bergqvist built first igloo in 1991 for an art exhibition．It was so successful that he designed the present one, which measures roughly 200 square meters．Six workmen spent more than eight weeks piling 1,000 tons of snow onto a wooden base; when the snow froze, the base was removed．“The only wooden thing we have left in the igloo is the front door,” he says．

　　After their stay, all visitors receive a survival certificate recording their success．With no windows, nowhere to hang clothes and temperatures below 0℃, it may seem more like as survival test than a relaxing hotel break．“It's great fun,” Bergqvist explains, as well as a good start in survival training．

　　The popularity of the igloo is beyond doubt: it is now attracting tourists from all over the world．At least 800 people have stayed at the igloo this season even though there are only 10 rooms．You can get a lot of people in, explains Bergqvist．The hotels are three meters by two meters long, and can fit at least four at one time．

1．According to the text, the first thing to do in building an igloo is________．

[　　]

A．to cover the ground with ice

B．to gather a pool of water

C．to pile a large amount of snow

D．to prepare a wooden base

2．Which of the following pictures below is the closest to the igloo hotel as described in the text?

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A．

B．

C．

D．

3．Bergqvist designed and built the world's first igloo hotel because ________．

[　　]

A．more hotel rooms are needed

B．he wanted to make a name for the small town

C．an art exhibition was about to open

D．he believed people would enjoy trying something new

4．When guests leave the igloo hotel they will receive a paper stating that________．

[　　]

A．they have had an ice-snow holiday

B．they have visited Lapland

C．they have had a taste of adventure

D．they have had great fun sleeping on ice

5．When the writer says “The fun will be over”, he refers to the fact that________．

[　　]

A．a bigger igloo will replace the present one

B．holiday makers will soon get tired of the big igloo．

C．hotel guests will be frightened at the thought of the hard test

D．Bergqvist's hotel will soon become a pool of water．

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　　Shanghai: Car rentals (出租) are becoming more and more popular as an inexpensive way of taking to the roads．Business people, foreigners and families are making good use of the growing industry．

　　The first car rental firm opened in Shanghai in 1992 and now 12 cars rental players are in the game, with more than 11,500 cars in their books．

The largest player Shanghai Bashi Tourism Car Rental Center offers a wide variety of choices deluxe sedans, minivans, station wagons, coaches．Santana sedans are the big favorite．

　　Firms can attract enough customers for 70 percent of their cars every month．This figure shoots up during holidays seasons like National Day, Labor Day and New Year's Day, with some recording 100 percent rental．

　　“The major market force rests in the growing population of white-collar employees, who can afford the new service,” said Zhuang Yu, marketing manager of Shanghai Angel Car Rental Co．

1．Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the text?

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A．Some firms rent out all their cars during holiday seasons

B．70％ of the customers are white-collar employees

C．70％ of the cars can be rented out on holiday．

D．More firms are open for service during holiday seasons

2．Shanghai's car rental industry is growing so fast mainly due to________．

[　　]

A．the increasing number of white-collar employees

B．better cars supplied by products

C．people's growing interest in traveling during holidays

D．fast service offered by car rental firms

3．The words deluxe sedans, minivans and station wagons used in the text refer to________．

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　　If you ask people to name the one person who had the greatest effect on the English language, you will get answers like Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson and Webster, but none of these men had any effect at all compared to a man who didn't even speak English William the Conquer．

　　Before 1066, in the land we now call Great Britain lived peoples belonging to two major language groups．In the westcentral region lived the Welsh, who spoke a Celtic language, and in the north lived the Scots, whose language, though not the same as Welsh, was also Celtic．In the rest of the country lived the Saxons, actually a mixture of Anglos, Saxons, and Germanic and Nordic peoples, who spoke what we now call Anglo-Saxon (or Old English), a Germanic language．If this state of affairs had lasted, English today would be close to German．

　　But this state of affairs did not last．In 1066 the Normans led by William defeated the Saxons and began their rule over England．For about a century, French became the official language of England while Old English became the language of peasants．As a result, English words of politics and the law come from French rather than German．In some cases, modern English even shows a distinction (区别) between upper-class French and lower-class Anglo-Saxon in its words．We even have different words for some foods, meat in particular, depending on whether it is still out in the fields or at home ready to be cooked, which shows the fact that the Saxon peasants were doing the farming, while the upper-class Normans were doing most of the eating．

　　When Americans visit Europe for the first time, they usually find German more foreign than France because the German they use on signs and advertisements seems much more different from English than French does．Few realize that the English language is actually Germanic in its beginning and that the French influences are all the result of one man's ambition．

1．Which of the following groups of words are, by inference, rooted in French?

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A．folk, field, law

B．president, lawyer, beef

C．president, bread, water

D．bread, field, sheep

2．What is the subject discussed in the text?

[　　]

A．The similarity between English and French

B．The rule of England by William the Conquer

C．The French influences on the English language

D．The history of Great Britain

3．The two major languages spoken in what is now called Great Britain before 1066 were________．

[　　]

A．Celtic and Old English

B．Welsh and Scottish

C．Anglo-Saxon and Germanic

D．Nordic and Germanic

4．Why does France appear less foreign than Germany to Americans on their first visit to Europe?

[　　]

A．They know French better than German

B．Most advertisements in France appear in English

C．Many French words are similar to English ones

D．They know little of the history of the English language

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　　Many cities around the world today are heavily polluted．Careless methods of production and lack of consumer demand for environment-friendly (有利环境的) products have contributed to the pollution problem．One result is that millions of tons of glass, paper, plastic, and containers are produced, and these are difficult to get rid of．

　　However, today, more and more consumers are choosing green and demanding that the products they buy should be safe for the environment．Before they buy a product, they ask questions like these: Will this shampoo damage the environment? Can this container be reused or can it only be used once? ．

　　A recent study showed that that two out of five adults now consider the environmental safety of a product before they buy it．This means that companies now change the way they make and sell their products to make sure that they are green, that is, friendly to the environment．

　　Only a few years ago, it was impossible to find green products in supermarkets, but now there are hundreds．Some supermarket products carry labels (标签) to show that the product is green．Some companies have made the manufacturing (生产) of clean and safe products their main selling point and emphasize

it in their advertising．

　　The concern for a safer and cleaner environment is making companies rethink how they do business．No longer will the product accept the old attitude of “Buy it, throw it away, and forget it．” The public pressure is on, and gradually business is cleaning up its act．

1．What would be the best title for the text?

[　　]

A．Supermarkets and Green Products

B．Shopping habits Are Changing

C．Business and People

D．Business Goes Green

2．The underlined word it in the fourth paragraph refers to ________．

[　　]

A．the manufacturing of green products

B．a great demand for health foods

C．a selling point

D．the company name

3．It becomes clear from the text that the driving force behind green products is________．

[　　]

A．new ways of doing business

B．public caring for the environment

C．rapid growth of supermarkets

D．companies' desire for larger sales

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　　Betty and Harold have been married for years．But one thing still puzzles (困扰) old Harold．How is it that he can leave Betty and her friend Joan sitting on the sofa, go out to a ball game, come back and a half hours later, and they are still on the sofa, talking?

　　What in the world, Harold wonders, do they have to talk about?

　　Betty shrugs．Talk? We're friends．

　　Researching this matter called friendship, psychologist Lillian Rubin spent two years interviewing more than two hundred women and men．No matter what their age, their job, their sex, the results were completely clear: women have more friendships than men,, and the difference in the content and the quality of those friendship is marked and unmistakable．

　　More than two-thirds of the single men Rubin interviewed could not name a best friend．Those who could were likely to name a woman．Yet three-quarters of the single women had no problem naming a best friend, and almost always it was a woman．More married men than women named their wife/husband as a best friend, most trusted person, or the one they would turn to in time of emotional distress (感情危机)．“Most women,” says Rubin, “identified (认定) at least one, usually more, trusted friends to whom they could turn in a troubled moment, and they spoke openly about the importance of these relationships in their lives．

　　In general, writes Rubin in her new book, women's friendship with each other rest on shared emotions and support, but men's relationships are emotionally controlled a good fit with the social requirements of manly behavior．

　　“Even when a man is said to be a best friend,” Rubin writes, “the two share little about their innermost feelings．” Whereas a woman's closest female friend might be the first to tell her to leave a failing marriage, it wasn't unusual to hear a man say he didn't know his friend's marriage was in serious trouble until he appeared one night asking if he could sleep on the sofa．

1．According to the text, which type of behavior is NOT expected of a man by society?

[　　]

A．Going out to ball games too often

B．Ending his marriage without good reason

C．Complaining about his marriage trouble

D．Spending too much time with his friends．

2．The research done by psychologist Rubin centers around________．

[　　]

A．interactions between men and women

B．emotional problems in marriage

C．happy and successful marriages

D．friendships of men and women

3．What old Harold cannot understand or explain is the fact that________．

[　　]

A．he finds his wife difficult to talk to

B．women have so much to share

C．women show little interest in ballgames

D．he is treated as an outsider rather than a husband

4．Which of the following statements is best supported by the last paragraph?

[　　]

A．Men often take sudden action to end their marriage

B．Men keep their innermost feelings to themselves

C．Women are more serious than men about marriage

D．Women depend on others in making decisions

5．Rubin's study shows that for emotional support a married woman is more likely to turn to________．

[　　]

　　Every time you visit Disney World, there's something new to see．What began in 1971 as the Magic Kingdom now includes the high-tech, movie-mad Disney and Animal Kingdom．Each time the park expands (扩大), so do your chances to spend money．How can you save? As a family guide to Disney World, I've been to the park more than 25 times with my kids, and I've developed a few money-saving plans．

　　·Buy the five-day All-in-One Hopper Pass (入场券)．Even if you're visiting for fewer days, it's a deal (the pass costs $ 229 for visitors ages 10 and up, $ 183 for kids ages three to nine and is free for kids under age three)．Without the pass, you'll have to pay separately for Pleasure Island and the water parks．A single trip to Blizzard Beach, for example, would cost a family of four $ 100．

　　·Dine out at lunch．The prices at some of the nicer restaurants, especially those in Epcot's World Showcase, are much lower at noontime than at dinner．It's wise to make reservations (预订) before you leave home．Call 407-W-DISNEY．

　　·Become a Gold Card Member．For $ 65, you can get a Magic Kingdom Club Gold Card (call 1-800-56-DISNEY)．Cardholders get up to 20 percent off Disney hotel rooms, plus price breaks on character breakfasts, theme park tickets and goods from Disney stores．

　　·Don't pay extra to see a character．Character-theme dinner shows are expensive, costing a family of four about

$ 140, and even a character breakfast, where Mickey or Donald Duck joins you for cakes, can set you back $50．If your budget (预算) is tight, try to meet the characters inside the theme parks and at free in-park shows．You can watch the Diamond Horseshoe show, for example, in the Magic Kingdom for no additional cost, while the similarly themed Hoop-Dee-Doo Musical Revue requires expensive tickets．

　　·Wait until the end of your trip to buy souvenirs (纪念品)．By then, the kids will really know what they want, and you won't waste money on expensive things．

1．To save money, the writer suggests________．

[　　]

A．you should not buy things for the kids from Disney stores

B．you should not buy souvenirs at the beginning of the trip

C．you should not make a trip to Blizzard Beach

D．you should not have your meals out at noontime

2．Which of the following can be used in place of “set you back”?

[　　]

3．You should pay more money________．

[　　]

A．if you have a five-day All-in-One Hopper Pass while you're visiting for four days

B．if you do not make a reservation for hotel rooms in advance

C．if you are not a Magic Kingdom Club Gold Card holder

D．if you have lunch at a restaurant in Epcot's World Showcase

4．The economical (经济的) way of meeting the Disney cartoon characters is________．

[　　]

A．to have a character breakfast

B．to watch the Diamond Horseshoe show

C．to pay separately for Pleasure Island and the water parks

　　Terrible weather, melting (融化的) snow and gathering clouds may be signs of global warming．The average temperature on Earth for last year was the second warmest since written records began 140 years ago．

　　“The global average surface temperature in 2001 was 14．42 degrees centigrade,”the World Meteorological Organization (WMO世界气象组织) said．The record, set in 1998, was 14．58 degrees centigrade．

　　“Temperatures are getting hotter, and they are getting hotter faster now than at any time in the past,” said Michel Jarraud, a WMO official．

　　Carbon dioxide (二氧化碳) produced from burning fuels is the most common of the so-called greenhouse gases．The growing concentration (集中) in the atmosphere of these gases is thought to be warming the Earth．“Most of the causes of global warming are due to human action,” said Ken Davidson, director of WMO's climate programme department．

　　Every year, large amounts of gases produced by factories, cars and burning trees hold in too much heat and cause global warming．Many scientists believe the warming, if not stopped, will cause extreme climate changes this century．

　　Throughout the world, the spreading of particular diseases and other threats (威胁) to human health depend largely on local climates．Extreme temperatures can directly cause loss of life．Warm temperatures can increase air and water pollution, which in turn can harm human health．

　　In the Earth's atmosphere there are tiny amounts of gases called greenhouse gases．These gases hold in the heat that comes up from the sun-warmed Earth．As cities have increased in size and population, factories and industries in the world have grown．People need more and more electricity, cars and other things．So more greenhouse gases have been added to the atmosphere．This causes more heat to be trapped than in the past．This is called the greenhouse effect．

1．The subject discussed in the passage is________．

[　　]

A．the growing population of the world

B．the global average surface temperature

C．the increasing greenhouse effect

D．the causes of air and water pollution

2．According to a WMO official, it is________ that should be blamed for global warming．

[　　]

A．modern factories

B．human activities

C．carbon dioxide

D．burning fuels

3．The rising of the earth temperature will finally result in ________．

[　　]

A．the spreading of particular diseases

B．air and water pollution

C．extreme climate changes

D．all of the above

4．Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

[　　]

A．Air and water pollution is caused by global warming．

B．Greenhouse gases do no good to human beings．

C．With the air getting hotter, people need more and more electricity, cars and other things．

D．The average temperature on Earth for 1998 was the warmest according to written records．

　　Mark Shuttleworth is just 28 years old．He is about to feel out of this world．On April 22, Shuttleworth, who is a South African Internet millionaire, will set off for a dream trip to the International Space Station (ISS)．

　　Taking a Russian Soyuz rocket, Shuttleworth will become the world's second “space tourist”．Last April, wealthy Californian businessman Dennis Tito, who was 60, paid Russia US $ 20 million for an eight-day trip to ISS．

　　By the time he leaves for ISS, Shuttleworth will have had about eight months of full-time training．“The training has been excellent,” Shuttleworth said from the Star City training centre just outside Moscow, Russia．

　　“The training includes weightlessness and centrifuge (离心分离机) training, as well as learning how to use communications and control systems,” he said．Shuttleworth hates being called a tourist．He said he will take responsibility (责任) for radio and life support systems in the capsule (太空舱)．He will carry out three experiments in space for South Africa．And he hopes to educate young people about space．“The task is causing excitement among scientists and school children I am very satisfied that it is worthwhile,” Shuttleworth said．

　　Shuttleworth will be met by astronauts at the Space Station．Among them is American Daniel Bursch．Living in space for more than a month now, Bursch already misses some of the simple pleasures of Earth．In space he cannot, for example, enjoy taking a breath of fresh air on a winter morning．

　　“My family is probably the number one thing I miss like the children coming into my room and waking me up,” Bursch said last month in a space-to-ground interview．Bursch, who is the Father of four children, landed at the station last December along with two co-workers．They will be on duty there for five and a half months．

　　“We have a mixture of Russian and US food．It's excellent,” Bursch said．“But of course it would be nice to have a hotdog and a beer!”

1．How long will Shuttleworth stay at the International Space Station?

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A．About eight months．

B．Eight days．

C．Five months and a half．

D．The passage doesn't tell us．

2．Shuttleworth will be working with ________ in the space capsule．

[　　]

A．Dennis Tito

B．Russian astronauts

C．another three astronauts

D．scientists and school children

3．Shuttleworth does not like people calling him a tourist because ________．

[　　]

A．he is a South African Internet millionaire

B．his trip will help educate young people about space

C．he has learned how to use communications and control systems

D．he thinks his trip to space is more than sightseeing

4．What Bursch misses most is that________．

[　　]

A．he cannot have a hotdog and a beer

B．he is so far away from his family

C．he cannot breathe fresh air on a winter morning

D．he has nobody to wake him up

　　In 1901 a German scientist named William Roentgen received the first Nobel Prize for Physics．He had discovered X-rays．He made his discovery when he noticed that in certain experiments a special kind of light was made by the cathode rays (阴极设线) hitting a screen．The other scientists working with him had noticed this light but they did not think it was important．Roentgen was the first person to ask himself questions about this special kind of light．When he examined it, he discovered a new kind of radiation called X-rays．

　　We often think that a creative idea suddenly comes into our heads from nowhere．This is not usually the case it comes because we are ready to receive it．When someone asked Isaac Newton how he had discovered the laws of gravity, he replied, “I am certain that any mind working on a problem continuously will be prepared for the sudden answer．” Albert Einstein received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1921 and said that there are discoveries waiting to be made if people continue to look and study all the time．

　　One of the problems facing creative people is that their ideas may be too new for the rest of the world．It often happens that people laugh at the work of artists and scientists．Barbara McClintock is a good example of someone who continued to think she was right although for 30 years other scientists thought that she was wrong．Finally, her work proving that genes (基因) can make sudden change in heredity (遗传) won her the Nobel Prize in 1983．

　　Many creative people looking for ideas or solutions find them in a visual (视觉) form first．Elias Howe, the man who invented the sewing machine, had a big problem facing him．He could not understand how to connect the needle to the rest of the machine．Needles had always had a pointed end, with the hole at the other end．One night in a dream he was attacked by people with sharp spears (矛)．In the morning he said, There is the answer staring me in the face! He made a hole in the sharp end of the needle and then connected it to the sewing machine．

　　What kind of creativity do you have? You can help your creativity by asking lots of questions, preparing a piece of work

carefully and taking some sensible risks．Work hard and change your way of working sometimes alone, sometimes in a group．Have fun! Be creative!

1．We can infer from the passage that creativity means ________．

[　　]

A．the imagination to find a way of doing things

B．the plan to make an important discovery

C．the ability to make something different

D．the power to make something new

2．The writer's purpose in writing this passage is________．

[　　]

A．to tell some interesting stories

B．to prove that people are creative in many ways

C．to praise some great scientists

D．to explain why some people are clever

3．Which of the following statements is best supported by the third paragraph?

[　　]

A．Believe in your own ideas．

B．Pay attention to your dreams．

C．Ask questions about everything around you．

D．Collect as much information as you can．

4．Which of the following statements is FALSE?

[　　]

A．You can be more creative if you read a lot．

B．You can promote your creativity by asking lots of questions．

C．You can help your creativity by getting into the habit of thinking about ordinary things．

D．Doing a lot of preparations can make you more creative．

　　One of the greatest killers in the Western world is heart disease．The death rate (率) from the disease has been increasing at an alarming speed for the past thirty years．Today in Britain, for example, about four hundred people a day die of heart disease．Medical experts know that people can reduce their chances of getting heart disease by exercising regularly, by not smoking, by changing their diets, and by paying more attention to reducing stress in their work．

　　However, western health-care systems are still not paying enough attention to the prevention of the disease．There is a need for more programs to educate the public about the causes and prevention of heart disease．Instead of supporting such programs, however, the U．S．health-care system is spending large sums of money on the surgical (外科的)) treatment of the disease after it develops．This emphasis on treatment clearly has something to do with the technological advances that have taken place in the past ten to fifteen years．In this time, modern technology has enabled doctors to develop new surgical techniques．Many operations that were considered impossible or too risky (有风险的) a few years ago are now performed every day in U．S．hospitals．The result has been a huge increase in heart surgery．

　　Although there is no doubt that heart surgery can help a large number of people, some people point out that the emphasis on the surgical treatment of the disease has three clear disadvantages．First, it attracts interest and money away from the question of prevention．Second, it causes the costs of general hospital care to rise．After hospitals buy the expensive equipment that is necessary for modern heart surgery, they must try to recover the money they have spent．To do this, they raise costs for all their patients, not just those patients whose treatment requires the equipment．The third disadvantage is that doctors are encouraged to perform surgery even on patients for whom an operation is unnecessary because the equipment and expert skills are there．A government office recently stated that major heart surgery was often performed even though its chances of success were low．In one type of heart surgery, for example, only 15 percent of patients improved their conditions after the surgery．However, more than 100,000 of these operations are performed in the United States every year．

1．What effect has modern technology had on medicine?

[　　]

A．It has reduced the costs of medical treatment．

B．It has helped save the lives of most patients．

C．It has encouraged doctors to do more heart surgeries．

D．It has helped educate people about the prevention of heart disease．

2．“To do this” in Paragraph 3 means________．

[　　]

A．to help patients recover

B．to increase the number of heart surgeries

C．to get back the money spent on the equipment

D．to buy new equipment for the treatment of heart disease

3．The author would agree that________．

[　　]

A．more money should be spent on the prevention of heart disease

B．heart surgery has helped most patients improve their conditions

C．modern technology has made heart surgery more risky than before

D．the public have known a great deal about the causes of heart disease

4．What would be the best title for the passage?

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A．The Greatest Killer in the West

B．Heart Disease: Treat or Prevent

C．Modern Technology and Heart Surgery

D．Heart Surgery: Advantages and Disadvantages