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　　In many countries today, Laws protect wildlife. In India the need for such protection was realized centuries ago.

　　About 300 B. C. an Indian writer described forests that were somewhat like national parks today. The killing of game animals was carefully governed. Some animals were fully protected. Within the forest, nobody was allowed to cut trees, burn wood, or trap animals for their furs. Animals that became dangerous to human visitors were trapped or killed outside the park, so that other animals would not become uneasy.

　　The need for wildlife protection is greater now than ever before. About a thousand sorts of animals are in danger of extinction, and the speed at which they are being destroyed has been putting on. With mammals(哺乳类动物), for example, the speed of extinction is now about one sort every year; from A. D. 1 to 1,800, the speed was about one sort every fifty years. Everywhere, men are trying to solve the problem of saving wildlife while caring for the world's growing population.

1．This report says that the need for protecting wildlife ________.

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A．was understood centuries before this time

B．was described by an Indian writer about 2,300 years ago

C．is met in many countries today

D．is carried out in forests as well as in national parks

2．The report says that in Indian forests of long ago ________.

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A．hunters were given permits to hunt game

B．only dangerous animals were to be killed

C．the killing of game animals was controlled

D．no killing of animals was allowed

3．According to the report, men trying to save wildlife are thinking about ________ as well.

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A．the animals in national parks

B．stricter laws against hunting

C．the trees in the forests

D．the needs of people

4．From the report we can learn ________.

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A．the growth of the world's population has meant greater danger to wildlife

B．about a thousand sorts of mammals are in danger of extinction

C．the speed of extinction of mammals is lower now than it was from A. D. 1 to 1, 800

D．hunters who kill endangered sorts of animals are seriously punished by law

5．The word “extinction” in this report most properly means ________.

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　　“It hurts me more than you”, and “This is for your own good”－these are the statements my mother used to make years ago when I had to learn Latin, clean my room, stay home and do homework.

　　That was before we entered the permissive period in education in which we decided it was all right not to push our children to achieve their best in school. The schools and the educators made it easy for us. They taught that it was all right to be parents who take a let-alone policy. We stopped making our children do homework. We gave them calculators, turned on the television, left the teaching to the teachers and went on vacation.

　　Now teachers, faced with children who have been developing at their own pace for the past 15 years, are realizing we've made a terrible mistake. One such teacher is Sharon Klompus who says of her students－“so passive”－and wonders what has happened. Nothing is demanded of them, she believes. Television, says Klompus, contributes to children's passivity. “We're talking about a generation of kids who've never been hurt or hungry. They have learned somebody will always do it for them, instead of saying ‘go and look it up’, you tell them the answer. It takes work. It takes greater energy to say no to a kid.”

　　Yes, it does. It takes energy and it takes work. It's time for parents to end their vacation and come back to work. It's time to take the car away, to turn the TV off, to tell them it hurts you more than them but it's for their own good. It's time to start telling them no again.

1．Children are becoming more inactive in study because ________.

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A．they watch TV too often

B．they have done too much homework

C．they have to fulfil too many duties

D．teachers are too strict with them

2．By “permissive period in education”(L. 1, Para. 2) the author means a time ________.

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A．when children are allowed to do what they wish to

B．when everything can be taught at school

C．when every child can be educated

D．when children are permitted to receive education

3．The main idea of the passage is that ________.

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A．parents should leave their children alone

B．kids should have more activities at school

C．it's time to be more strict with our kids

D．parents should always set a good example to their kids

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　　Sandstorms hit northwestern China's Gansu Province and North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region(内蒙古自治区) on the first day of the new century. According to Sun Landong, a meteorologist with the Lanzhou Meteorology Observatory, visibility(能见度) was less than 100 meters in Minqin, a Gansu county near Inner Mongolia, because of sand. When visibility, drops to less than 1 kilometer, it is called a sandstorm. The sandstorm in Minqin blew up dust in neighboring towns, such as Baiyin, Wuwei, Jinchang and Lanzhou, the capital city of Gansu Province. Dust-laden winds also swept into Beijing. Brought by northwesterlies blowing at more than 20 meters per second, dust first reached the capital's suburbs at 7 am, downtown areas at 9 am. The winds, which died down during the night, brought the temperature down to as low as 8℃ below zero and many flights put off their planned time from the city's airport.

　　It is quite rare for sandstorms, which are frequent between March and June, to happen in winter, when the earth is frozen. The sandstorms in Gansu and Inner Mongolia do not necessarily mean there will be more of them in the spring than last year, when they were serious, but Beijing is taking it very seriously. It is reported that Beijing will spend 6 billion yuan ($ 725 million) in preventing sandstorms in the capital and has already set up a special team to make sure what causes them.

1．What is the main idea of the passage?

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A．Sandstorms took place in Gansu.

B．Sandstorms happened on the first day of the new century.

C．Sandstorms are very serious, compared to last year.

D．The experts are trying their best to determine the cause of the sandstorm formed this year.

2．Why did sandstorms begin in the winter this year?

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A．Because there was little snow this season.

B．Because a lot of trees have been cut down.

C．Because people took few measures to control them.

D．It is not mentioned in the passage.

3．Which of the following doesn't belong to the bad effect the sandstorms have done in Beijing?

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A．The temperature fell.

B．Flights put off their time to take off.

C．The air is dirty.

D．People had three days off.

4．The author wrote the passage to ________.

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A．tell us the environments are becoming worse and worse

B．explain what measures people have taken to control sandstorms

C．make people realize the need to protect the environment

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　　Nature has supplied every animal except man with some covering for his body such as fur, feathers, hair, and shells as a thick hide. But man has nothing but a thin skin.

　　If someone were to ask you, “Why did human beings start to cover their bodies with clothes?” most would answer, “To keep themselves warm, of course.”

　　It is only when we begin to think about it a little that we realize that clothes are worn for a great many reasons that have nothing to do with our need for warmth at all.

　　For example, we wear clothes to some degree in order to decorate ourselves－to make ourselves, if possible, look more dignified(尊严) or nicer.

　　Clothes of a special kind are often worn to show that the wearer has authority or power. The individual wearing them is treated with respect because he occupies a certain office. The judge on the Bench, for example, might look a very ordinary and unimpressive figure without his wig and gown. Clothes are an important part of ceremony, whether it is connected with belief, the law, parliament, and royalty, the fighting forces or the state. How very different the Queen's Coronation ceremony(加冕仪式) would have looked without the robes, coronets and the cloth of gold.

　　Sometimes, even in some modern countries people wear some article of clothing, or some jewel, because they believe that it will bring them luck or protect them from evil or illness, or because it is connected with their beliefs.

　　None of these reasons for wearing clothes－to decorate ourselves, to show our position in the world, for ceremonial purposes, for “luck”, to give ourselves dignity and authority－have anything to do with our need for warmth.

1．From the passage we know that wearing clothes is man's basic necessity to ________.

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2．The judge wearing special clothes on the Bench ________.

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3．Even in modem countries, sometimes people wear certain clothes because ________.

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A．they believe that they will get protected from bad luck and illness

B．it has something to do with their wealth

C．they want to show their power

D．they enjoy wearing such kind of clothes

4．The author's purpose in writing this article is to tell us that clothes are worn ________.

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A．for ceremonial occasions

B．for many other reasons besides warmth

C．to keep people impressive and nicer

D．to show people's authority or power

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　　AIQILE Bolivia－more than 80 people died and at least 100 were proved injured in the devastating earthquake last Friday, said Bolivia's national Civil Defense Service director Luis Montero.

　　The earthquake, which measured 6.6 degrees, hit this distant area of eastern Bolivia early Friday morning. The small towns of Aiquile and Totora, some 620 kilometers and 645 kilometers east of La Paz separately had a bad effect. Both have declared disaster areas.

　　Scores of people are missing, and as many as 15,000 were left homeless. At least 950 homes in the area have been damaged, and as many as 600 destroyed, montero said.

1．In the first paragraph, “devastating” means ________.

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2．The centre of the earthquake is ________.

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3．How many people suffered the disaster?

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A．About 180.

B．A lot more than 15,000.

C．Only 80.

D．More than 100.

4．The title of the article is probably ________.

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A．The Biggest Earthquake

B．The earthquake Hit Eastern Bolivia

C．More than 80 people Died

D．950 Homes Damaged, 600 Homes Destroyed

阅读理解

　　Singapore. Tues. Eight people－three of them women－died after being trapped(困陷) in an attic(顶楼) when fire gutted(通风) their two-storey terrace house yesterday.

　　In the tragedy about thirty-six people were sleeping in the building when the fire, started by a short circuit, broke out. Most of them managed to rush out in time.

　　One of the first to leave the building was Miss Poh, nineteen, a factory worker, who was awakened from her sleep by shouts of “Fire!” shortly after 3:10 am.

　　She said, “I shouted to the other tenants to get out. By this time, the first floor was in flames and I could hear people crying and screaming. Someone brought a ladder and placed it against the wall, but it only went up as far as the first floor. There was no hope for those trapped in the attic.”

　　One man who did escape from the attic told reporters that he could only save himself by going through the ventilation(通风) opening in the roof and climbing to an adjoining building.

　　Chin Meng, twenty, a fitter, wept as he recalled how he had to leave his parents behind. He said, “When I tried to return for my parents, I was driven back by the thick smoke and the heat.”

　　Shortly after the blaze was spotted, three fire engines raced to the scene and by 4 am had the fire under control. The MP for the area visited the scene and said, “The landlord was wrong to rent out rooms irresponsibly: He has not given due thought to the safety of his tenants.”

1．________ males were killed in the fire.

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2．The fire started ________.

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A．after Miss Poh awoke from her sleep

B．at about 3 am

C．in the daytime

D．quite some time after 3:10 am

3．The fire brigade took ________ to get the five under control.

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4．The MP for the area ________ the landlord.

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5．In the 6th paragraph, the word “recalled” means ________.

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　　●Warning: For External(外部的) USE only.

　　●Don't spread in eyes, mouth, ears or other sensitive areas of the boby. This product is not for use on wild or domestic animal bites or puncture(刺) wounds. If you have an animal bite or puncture, go to see your physician at once. Do not use this product for more than ten days. If conditions become worse, go to see your physician. Keep this and all drugs out of the reach of children. If there happens any accidental swallowing, ask for a doctor's help or get in touch with a Poison Control Center at once.

1．This passage is about a type of medicine which ________.

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A．one drinks

B．one uses on the outside of the body

C．one uses for animal bites

D．none of the above

2．The underlined word “domestic” probably means ________.

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3．As used here the underlined word “physician” most nearly means ________.

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A．physicist

B．chemist

C．medical doctor

D．person who sells this product

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　　Beijing－An earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale left 5,000 people homeless, killed at least one person and injured 39 others in southwest China, on Thursday, with more accidents expected.

　　By late Thursday, 4,900 people were declared homeless after the quake destroyed their homes in a mountainous area lying on the border between Yunnan and Sichuan provinces. The dawn quake left one dead and 39 injured, destroyed 268 houses and damaging 1,132 other buildings so seriously that they were considered uninhabitable.

　　Another 2,400 houses suffered less serious damage. The epicenter(震中) was near the scenic Lugu Lake, a tourist site, where the local school was severely damaged.

　　Preliminary(最初的) estimates put economic losses at 180 million yuan(22 million dollars).

　　Governments in Yanyuan and the neighboring Yunnan county of Ninglang have joined forces in the rescue efforts and tents, clothes and medicine are badly in need for the earthquake victims.

　　The mountainous terrain, heavy rain and several aftershocks all prevented rescue efforts on Thursday. The rain could cause more badly damaged homes to fall down.

　　More dead and injured are expected “as rescuers have yet to reach many faraway areas”. It is very hard for rescue workers because most houses are scattered around the mountains, which are inhabited by Yi and other ethnic minority groups(少数民族).

　　The quake hit the area at 5:10 am Beijing time (2,110 Wednesday GMT). Earthquakes regularly affect the two counties with two quakes measuring 5.0 and 6.2 on the Richter scale killing at least three people and injuring more than 1,500 in Ninglang in November 1998.

　　The area is about 100 kilometers from the historic Yunnan town of Lijiang, which was struck in 1996 by an earthquake that killed more than 250 people and injured 14,000.

1．The author's purpose in writing the passage is to ________.

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A．tell us the earthquake taking place in Yunnan has caused 5,000 homeless

B．warn the people in mountainous areas in Yunnan to take care earthquake

C．call on more help from the people all over the country

D．analyse why the earthquake took place in this area

2．The underlined word “scattered” in the seventh paragraph has a closest meaning to ________.

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3．“The two counties” here refers to ________.

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　　At the age of sixteen Gray left the small town of Pineville, where he was born. Twenty years later Gray found himself back on a visit. He went to see his old friend Tom Clark, who was busy preparing to welcome a well-known writer, who had been invited to give a talk on modern literature(文学) at the public library that very evening. Since he happened to have read a book or two by the famous writer, Gray gladly accepted the invitation when Tom asked him to go to the talk.

　　Tom was going to introduce the guest speaker to the audience(听众). So they went to the library a little earlier to greet him. As the guest had not yet arrived, Gray left Tom and went into the main reading-room where a large crowd had already gathered. He was sorry to find that he didn't know a single person there. And he found a seat in the corner and sat patiently waiting.

　　When it was about time for the talk to begin, Gray saw Tom standing at the doorway making a sign for him to come out. Tom looked worried about something, there fore, Gray rose from his seat immediately and went out to him. Tom explained to him that he had just had a telephone call from the writer's secretary. Their speaker had missed his flight and would not be arriving! While they were thinking about the problem, Tom suddenly asked Gray if he would mind filling in as the speaker. Gray hardly led back into the reading-room to address the waiting audience!

1．Gray went to the town of Pineville ________.

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A．to welcome a well-known writer

B．to visit Tom, an old friend of his

C．to give a talk at the public library

D．to listen to a talk on modern literature

2．Tom asked Gray to go to the library with him because ________.

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A．Gray knew of the famous writer

B．The guest had not arrived yet

C．Gray would be asked to give a talk

D．Tom should go there a little earlier

3．The underlined word “address” in the last sentence means ________.

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4．We can infer that ________.

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A．Gray was also a well-known writer

B．Gray knew nothing at all about modern literature

C．Some of the audience would be surprised to see Gray

D．none of the waiting audience knew the guest speaker

阅读理解

　　It is only during the last few years that man has generally realized that in the world of nature a balance exists(存在) between all forms of life. No living thing can exist by itself; it is part of a system in which all forms of life are joined together. If we change one part of the nature order, this will in turn almost certainly bring about changes in some other part.

　　The cutting down of forests reduces the supply of oxygen. The killing of weeds and insects by chemicals leads to the widespread poisoning(中毒) of animals and birds. The throwing of waste products into the ocean hurts life in the sea, while waste gases change the chemical balance of atmosphere and shut out some of the sun's necessary life giving rays.

　　And so we could go on, adding more examples, until in despair(绝望) we might feel like giving up the struggle to control and keep within limits these harmful human activities. Man is very clever at changing the world around him to satisfy his immediate need, but he is not so clever at looking far ahead, or at thinking about what the future results of his action might be. Man may well destroy himself in his attempt to be too ambitious(野心).

1．The examples given in the second paragraph are evidences(证据) that ________.

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A．it is during the last few years that man has generally known the balance of nature

B．there are some living things which can exist by themselves without change

C．all forms of life belong to a system in which all the parts can be changed for another

D．we cannot change one form of life without destroying the balance of nature

2．The last paragraph suggests that, in man's attempt to increase immediate benefits, ________.

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A．man often fails to think about his future results of his action

B．man is always too ambitious to planning distant future

C．man often feels that he will have to give up in despair

D．man is always anxious to control and keep his activities within limits

3．Which of the following statements is TRUE?

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A．Cutting down woods does little harm to human beings.

B．Man has to pay much attention to the future results of his present action.

C．Oxygen comes from forests.

D．This passage tells us to try our best to get as much as possible immediately.

4．Which of the following is the best title of this passage?

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