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　　Discover

　　Newsmagazine of science devoted to the wonders are stories of modern science, written for the educated general reader. Published(出版)by Disney Magazine Publishing Co.. Discover tells many of the same stories professionals(专业人员)read in Scientific American. A truly delightful family science magazine, each issue(每期)brings to light new and newsworthy topics to make dinnertime and water－cooler conversations interesting.

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　　Self

　　Published by Conde Nast Publications Inc., Self is a handbook devoted to women's overall physical and mental health. Every issue contains usable articles such as “Style Lab”, in which wearable clothes are mixed and matched on non－models and the “Eat－right Road Map”, with tips on how to eat properly.

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　　Instyle

　　Instyle is a guide to the lives and lifestyles of the world's famous people. The magazine covers the choices people make about their homes, their clothes and their free time activities. With photos and articles, it opens the door to these people's homes, families, parties and weddings, offering ideas about beauty, fitness and in general, lifestyles. Publisher：The Time Inc. Magazine Company.

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　　Wired

　　This magazine is designed for leaders in the field of information engineering including top managers and professionals in the computer, business, design and education industries. Published by Conde Nast Publications Inc., Wired often carries articles on how technology changes people's lives.

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1．Which of the following magazines is published monthly?

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2．Which two magazines are published by the same publisher?

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A．Wired. and Instyle.

B．Discover. and. Instyle.

C．Self and Discover

D．Self and Wired

3．Which magazine offers the biggest price cut?

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4．The “Style Lab” in Self provides readers with articles which ________.

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A．offer advice to ordinary women on clothes

B. show how a woman can become famous

C．introduce places with the best food

D．discuss ways of training models

5．Those who are interested in management and the use of high technology would probably choose ________.

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　　Captain James Cook was a great explorer(探测者). Before he started exploring(探测), maps of the Pacific Ocean were almost empty. He visited hundreds of islands and put them in the correct places on the map. He made maps of the coastlines of Australia and New Zealand. James Cook was born in England In 1728. His parents were poor farm workers. When James was 18, he found a job on a coastal ship. He worked on ships until he was 27 years old, and then he joined the navy(海军). He fought in Canada in a war against France, and he mapped some of the eastern coasts of Canada. In 1768 King George Ⅲ made him captain of a ship and sent him to the Pacific. He was gone for nearly three years. When he returned, he was a national hero.

　　He started his third voyage(航海)in 1776. On this trip he was the first European to visit Hawaii. Then he mapped the eastern coast of North America. After that, he returned to Hawaii. There was some trouble between the Hawaiians and the white men and they started fighting. Captain Cook was killed. The Hawaiians were very sorry for the wrong fighting.

1．In which order did James Cook do the following things?

a. Fought against France

b. Made maps of some of the eastern coast of Canada

c. Mapped the coastlines of Australia and New Zealand

d. Mapped the west coast of North America

e. Was made the captain of a ship

f. Worked on a coastal ship

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2．He started exploring when ________.

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A．he worked on a coastal ship

B．he was 27 years old

C．he was sent to the Pacific

D．he served in the navy

3．Which of the following is not true?

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A．He made maps of the Pacific Ocean

B．He went on three long and important voyages in his life.

C．He was the first Englishman to reach Hawaii.

D．He was respected by his people.

4．He was considered a national hero because of ________.

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A．his experience in Canada

B．his being the first European to visit Hawaii

C．his heroic death

D．his devotion to his exploring

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　　Have you ever imagined what kind of car we will be driving in 2020? It will be rather different from the type we know today, with the next 20, years bringing greater change than the past 50．The people who will be designing the models of tomorrow believe that environmental problems may well accelerate(促进，加快)the pace of the car's development. Today they are students on the transport design course at London's Royal College of Art.

　　Their vision is of a machine with three wheels instead of four, electrically powered, environmentally clean, and able to drive itself along “intelligent” roads equipped with built－in(内置的)power supplies. Future cars will pick up their fuel during long journeys from a power source built into the road, or store it in small quantities for traveling in the city.

　　Instead of today's seating arrangements－two in front, two or three behind, all facing forward－the 2010 car will have a versatile interior with adults and children in a family circle.

　　This view of the future car is based on a much more sophisticated(复杂的)road system, with strips built into motorways to supply power to vehicles passing along them. Cars will not need drivers, because computers will provide safe driving control and route finding. All the driver will have to do is to say where to go and the computer will do the rest. It will become impossible for cars to crash into one another. The technology already exists for the car to become a true automobile.

1．A future car will use electrical power, because it is ________.

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2．A future car will have all the following features(特点)EXCEPT ________.

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A．being three－wheeled

B．running without anyone in it

C．driving along special roads

D．with a versatile seating arrangement

3．The underlined sentence “with strips built… passing along them” means that there will be ________.

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A．many traffic lights to control the speed of future cars

B．many street posts to indicate directions for drivers

C．many power sources along roads supplying power to cars

D．many stop marks along the street to stop cars

4．What is the main idea of the text?

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A．Future cars will be completely different from the automobiles we know today.

B．The design of future cars will be more sophisticated.

C．Because of the new type of cars, our future environment will become cleaner.

D．The road system will become more sophisticated than it is today.

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　　“Let's go down one more, push your enterkey… ” says a volunteer helping senior citizens work a web session on the Internet.

　　David Lansdale has found a way to light up the lives of the elderly. He gets them wired to the Internet, “If you hit your enter key, it will bring up this particular e－mail…”

　　Pauline Allen is one of those who have started using the Internet, “I thought I was through with life, I was ready for a rocking chair, because I was 86 years old. And I haven't found the rocking chair yet.” “You found the keyboard?” asks the reporter. “That's right, I found the keyboard.”

　　The average age of Lansdale's students is around 68. All are in nursing or assisted care homes. He used family relationships to introduce them to the World Wide Web.

　　David Lansdale says, “Herethey are in California, the family was back in New York, the opportunity to connect, to cross the time and space, was incredibly precious (valuable)opportunity to them.”

　　“I hear you are so beautiful.” Lillian Sher writes an e－mail to a newborn great granddaughter. Working with one another, the senior learn as a group. They learn to master the Internet and to overcome what Lansdale calls the maladies of the institutionalized：loneliness, helplessness, boredom, and loss of memory.

　　Mary Harvey says, “Bingo just doesn't interest me. But this does, believe me, this does.” Ninety－four－year－old Ruth Hyman is a star pupil and instructor. She says, “When I send a letter to my grandchildren, and great grandchildren, they hang it up in their offices, just like I used to hang their drawings on my refrigerator. Ha, ha.”

　　David Lansdale says, “There's a collective benefit. There is an element(因素)of treatment. Remember we started as a support group.”

　　Dixon Moorehouse says, “I just wish I was 15 years old and getting to learn all this.” The senior call their weekly meetings Monday Night Live. And many say the meetings have given them new life.

　　Ruth Hyman says, “Three years ago, they told me I wasn't going to live. But I showed them, and got work, and I've worked ever since.”

1．The purpose of David Lansdale's work is to ________.

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A．keep the minds of the senior healthy

B．popularize the use of computers among the old

C．organize the senior as a group to work

D．help the senior connect with their families

2．The words “the maladies of the institutionalized” used in the text refer to ________.

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A．the difficulties in learning

B．the problems caused by getting old

C．some kinds of treatments

D．the worries about the Internet

3．How many examples does the writer give to prove that the senior enjoy the Internet?

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4．It can be inferred that Ruth Hyman's younger generations hang her mails up ________.

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A．in order to lose the letters

B．in order not to forget something important

C．to make the offices more beautiful

D．to show pride in their grandmother's work

5．What's the best title for the passage?

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A．How to keep healthy

B．The problems of the old

C．Senior citizens on the Internet

D．A school for the senior people

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　　More than 6000 children were expelled(开除)from US schools last year for bringing guns and bombs to school, the US Department of Education said on May 8.

　　The department gave a report on the expulsions(开除)as saying handguns accounted for 58 per cent of the 6093 expulsions in 1996－1997, against 7 per cent for rifles(步枪)or shotguns and 35 per cent for other types of firearms.

　　“The report is a clear sign that our nation's public schools are cracking down(严惩)on students who bring guns to school,” Education Secretary Richard Riley said in a statement. “We need to be toughminded about keeping guns out of our schools and do everything to keep our children safe.”

　　In March 1997, an 11－year－old boy and a 13－year－old boy using handguns and rifles shot dead four children and a teacher at a school in Jonesboro, Arkansas. In October, two were killed and seven wounded in a shooting at a Mississippi school. Two months later, a 14－year－old boy killed three high school students and wounded five in Daducah, Kentucky.

　　Most of the expulsions, 56 per cent, were from high schools, which have students from about age 13.34 per cent were from junior high schools and 9 per cent were from elementary schools, the report said.

1．From the first paragraph we can infer that in the US schools ________.

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A．students enjoy shooting

B．students are eager to be soldiers

C．safety is a problem

D．students can make guns

2．The report from the US Department of Education shows that ________.

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A．the number of the expulsions is not large

B．the number of the expulsions is wrong

C．there are soldiers hiding among the students

D．guns are out of control in US schools

3．The main idea of paragraph four shows us ________.

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A．some examples of shootings in US schools

B．the Americans' feeling

C．some famous schools

D．that some teachers were killed by students

4．How many students were shot dead in 1997 in US schools?

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5．From this passage we know that ________.

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A．every American cannot have guns

B．only soldiers and police can have guns

C．every American citizen can own guns

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　　Cannes will rock to the sound of a cancan dance this year when Moulin Rouge by the Australian director Baz Luhrmann opens the French Film Festival(电影节)in May. The musical stars Nicole Kidman as a singer, and John Leguizamo as the artist Henri de Toulouse－Lautrec. It will be competing for the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize. The festival runs to May 21.

　　The American actor Tommy Lee Jones, 54, has married his longtime girlfriend, Dawn Maria Laurel, 36, in a private wedding in San Antonio. “It wasn't a big to－do,” said Fred Biery, a U. S. District Judge who performed the service. He refused to discuss things further. “These are very private people,” he said.

　　Loretta Lynn is being treated for a very bad cold in Tennessee and will miss several appearances. The country singer, 65, was admitted to a hospital near her home in Hurricane Mills. “She is in good condition, but the doctors are watching her closely,” a spokeswoman said.

　　The French－Algerian singer Enrico Macias was named a United Nations peace messenger. Enrico joins eight other people who act as goodwill envoys(使者)for the United Nations, among them are the writer Elie Wiesel and the basketball player Magic Johnson.

1．We can learn from the text that Henri de Toulouse－Lautrec is ________.

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2．We know from the text that ________.

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A．Moulin Rouge won the top prize in a film festival

B．Loretta Lynn is under the doctors' care

C．eight people serve as the UN goodwill envoys

D．Fred Biery was Tommy Lee Jones' assistant

3．This text most probably appears in ________.

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A．a book on film stars

B．a film review in a magazine

C．a newspaper

D．a notice

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　　Anxious parents in the suburbs around Washington, US accompanied(陪伴)their children to school, or kept them at home, after a middle－school student became victim(受害者)NO. 8, in a series of shootings in the area. The shootings started on October 2.

　　The 13－year－old youth, an eighth－grader, was struck in the chest by a high－powered bullet on October 7. He was hit as he was being dropped off in front of his school by his aunt on October 7.

　　A mother comforted her daughter after picking her up from Benjaman Tasker Middle School where a 13－year－old boy was shot and seriously injured on October 7.

　　“I can't stop going to work, the children can't stop going to school,” said Henry Ollie, 48．He led his 12－year－old boy son, Charles, to the front door of the school, where the latest shooting happened. Ordinarily, Charles takes the bus.

　　Some buses arrived at schools carrying fewer students than usual. And schools where parents usually line up their cars to drop off youngsters had no traffic problems because so many parents had kept their children at home.

　　The middle school boy is still in critical(危急的)but stable(稳定的)condition after having about two and a half hours of surgery(手术)on the night of the shooting. He is the youngest of nine victims, including one who was shot dead on October 9.

　　All the victims, seven dead and two wounded, were in public places doing ordinary things. They were mowing a lawn(修草坪), filling a gas tank(加油)or walking into a supermarket.

　　“All of our victims have been defenceless, but to kill children is one step too far. Our children don't deserve(应受)this,” said Police Chief Charles Moose.

　　On October 10, the reward offered by authorities(当局)for information leading to the arrest of the killers or killers grew to US 330, 000.

　　US President George W. Bush said he had also ordered FBI(联邦调查局)experts and ballistics analysts(弹道分析家)to assist(援助)local police.

　　The serial killings have aroused(引起)hot discussion on gun control in the US. Many American families have guns to protect themselves or go hunting. Under federal law(联邦法), people who are 18 or older are allowed to own rifles(步枪)and shotguns.

1．What was the boy doing when he was attacked?

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A．He was playing on the playground.

B．He had just arrived at the school by bus.

C．He had just arrived at the school in a car.

D．He was helping his aunt filling her car's gas tank.

2．What did parents in the suburbs around Washington do to keep their children from danger?

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A．They stayed in the school with their children all day.

B．They went to the school together with their children or left them at home.

C．They took their children to their workplace.

D．They moved away.

3．What measures did the authorities take after the serial shootings began?

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A．They gave more money as a reward for people who gave clues as to who was doing the shooting.

B．Local police were given help from government experts.

C．Laws would be passed to forbid people to own guns.

D．Both A and B.

4．In Paragraph 7, the sentence “to kill children is one step too far” probably means ________.

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A．to kill the children, the killer has taken one more step

B．the killer hates children

C．killing children is worse than killing adults

D．the killer walked a long way to the school to kill

5．Which is the best title for the passage?

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A．US fears for lives

B. Anxious parents

C．Hot discussions on gun control

D．Protect the students

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　　Former US. Vice President A1 Gore, who came close to winning the presidency two years ago, said he will not run in 2004, and probably will not have another opportunity to seek the White House.

　　Though Gore would have been a frightening Democratic(民主党的)main runner, his decision to give up the 2004 race probably helped his party' s chances in the general election against President George W. Bush, Democrats said.

　　Many did not want to see Bush－Gore Ⅱ.

　　“The last campaign was an extremely difficult one,” Gore told CBS TV show “60 Minutes”. on Sunday.

　　While saying he still had the energy and drive to run again, Gore recognized, “There are a lot of people within the Democratic Party who felt exhausted (by the 2000 race)… who felt like, OK, ‘I don't want to go through that again.’ And I'm frankly sensitive to that feeling.”

　　In nearly two dozen interviews after Gore announced his plans, Democrats dutifully claimed their party had lost a top candidate, but one after another, they praised Gore for taking an early exit from a primary race he could have won, sparing them a repeat.

　　Gore, 54, said he was making his decision “in the full understanding that it probably means that I will never have another opportunity to run for president.”

　　Party activists(激进主义分子)blamed Gore for losing despite a booming economy and eight years of a Democratic administration. Gore even lost his home state of Tennessee; a victory there would have given him the White House.

1．Which of the following can be the best title for this passage?

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A．Gore Was Criticized

B．Gore Decides Not to Fight Bush in 2004

C．Former US. Vice President Al Gore

D．Al Gore and Gorge Bush

2．Why do you think Gore has decides not to run in 2004 according to this passage?

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A．Because he is quite old

B．Because many people are against him

C．Because he quite understands the feelings of a lot of Democratic members

D．Because he doesn't want to be President of US

3．What was Gore's feeling when he made his decision?

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　　Body Power：This class uses weights and aerobic movements to increase strength while burning fat. It is suitable for all levels of fitness.

　　Aerobics：This is a low to medium level of difficulty aerobics class. It is good for beginners to average levels of fitness.

　　Beginner Aerobics：This class has low levels of difficulty and simply aerobic movements. It is mainly for people who have not exercised before or who are just returning after a long break or injury.

　　Body Stretch：This is a relaxation class, which stretches all the muscle groups. It is suitable for all levels of fitness. People who exercise regularly or have a stressful lifestyle would also benefit from this class.

　　Body Burn：This is a high level of difficulty aerobics class that mainly targets fat burning. It is only. for those people with a very high level of fitness.

1．On Wednesday the fitness class at 6:30 is ________.

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2．Lena wants to go to the City Gym on Saturday. She has not exercised for a long time. The best time for her to go would be ________.

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3．The main goal of the Body Burn class is to ________.

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　　Some inventions are so useful, but seem so simple, that we wonder why no one thought of them long ago. Post－it Notes－the pieces of paper that you can fasten(固定)almost anywhere and then remove without leaving any sign that they were there=are an example of such an invention.

　　Post－it Notes were invented about twenty years ago by Art Fry, a scientist at 3M Corporation. The idea for the product came from a frustrating(令人沮丧的)experience he often had while singing in his church choir(唱诗班). Fry used pieces of paper as bookmarks to mark the places in his book of songs, but these bookmarks were always falling out. He knew he needed a bookmark that would stay where he put it, but that he could remove without damaging the pages.

　　Around that time, Fry heard about a new adhesive(粘合剂)that a colleague(同行), Dr. Spence Silver, had created. This adhesive was special because it was sticky, but not too sticky. It was strong enough to hold papers together, but weak enough to not tear the paper when it was removed. Fry saw that the new adhesive could help solve his bookmark problem. One morning, Fry put some of the adhesive on the edge of a piece of paper. Just as he hoped, it made a perfect bookmark.

　　A short time later, Fry realized that his new invention had even more uses than being a great bookmark. He came to this realization when he wrote a note on one of his new “bookmarks” and attached(附着)it to a report he was going to give to a colleague. Soon, co－workers were asking Fry for more samples (样品)of his invention so that they could use the new type of notes themselves.

　　Fry and some other people at 3M believed so much in the new product that they persuaded the company to give away thousands of the “sticky pieces of paper” for trial(试验)use. When some salespeople at 3M went to offices and showed workers just how helpful the new type of notes could be, they immediately received many orders. As more and more people discovered how useful Post－it Notes could be, the product took off.

1．The invention of Post－it Notes showed that Art Fry ________.

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A．had a lot of knowledge

B．was very hard－working

C．was good at creative(创造性的)thinking

D．loved his job in the church

2．In what way did Dr. Spence help Art Fry?

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A．They worked together and often discussed science.

B．His invention of a special adhesive made Art's invention possible.

C．He persuaded 3M Corporation to give away lots of Post－it Notes for trial use.

D．He cooperated with Art by providing the new adhesive for Art.

3．Which of the following is a possible use of Post－it Notes?

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A．A note on a friend's door.

B．An E－mail to a friend.

C．A postcard from abroad.

D．An ad in a newspaper.

4．The underlined phrase “too off” means ________.

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A．started to leave the ground

B. disappeared from the market

C. had even more uses

D．became popular very quickly

4．The biggest advantage of Post－it Notes is ________.

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A．it can stay anywhere and leave no sign when removed

B．it is very cheap to use

C．it is good to write notes on

D．it is very thin and beautiful