Radioactivity is dangerous. It may cause skin burns, it may destroy good tissues（组织）and it may cause illness that could be passed on to our children and. grand children. In case of exposure（暴露）it may even cause death.

　　In the early days of radioactivity, scientists did not realize these dangers. Marie and Pierre Curie, after having worked for a while with radioactive materials, noticed that their fingers were reddened and swollen（红肿）and the skin was peeling off. Henry Becquerel carried a small tube with radium in it in his waistcoat pocket, and was surprised to find a bum on his chest. Other early workers also reported bums and harm of different kinds.

　　The strange fact is that it can harm without causing pain, which is the warning signal we expect from harmfulness. Pain makes us pull back our hands from a fire or a hot object, but a per-son carrying radioactive materials has no way of telling whether he is touching something too“hot” for safety. Besides, the“burns” or other harmfulness that radioactivity produces may not appear for weeks. A person may have been hurt without knowing it for some time.

(1) Which is the topic sentence for this passage?

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A．Radioactivity may ever cause death.

B．Radioactivity does great harm to children.

C．Radioactivity may do harm to people without being known.

D．Radioactivity is dangerous.

(2) A few people were mentioned in the passage. They ________.

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A．were all famous scientists of great achievements

B．died of radioactivity

C．knew little about radioactivity

D．did experiments on themselves to find the danger of radioactivity

(3) According to the point of the passage, pain ________.

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(4) The sentence in the fifth line of the second paragraph“the skin was peeling off”means“________”．

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　　I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent.

　　I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows（誓言）mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.

　　So here's what I want to tell you today: Get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion（提升）,the bigger paycheck, the larger house.

　　Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure（空闲）; it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking, it for granted.

　　It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my choice, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all:

　　I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned.

　　By telling them this: Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a deadly illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion（激情）as it ought to be lived.

(1) The best title of this passage probably is“________”.

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(2) How did the author form her view of life?

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A．By working and social experience.

B．Learning from her friends.

C．Through an unfortunate experience.

D．Because of her children and husband.

(3) The underlined sentence“It is so easy to exist instead of to live.”in the fifth paragraph probably has the same meaning as ________.

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A．it is so easy to keep alive but not to live a real life

B．it is very hard to live a real life

C．it is so easy to make a living

D．it is more difficult to exist than to live a happy life

(4) What's the author's attitude toward work?

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A．Do it well to serve others.

B．To earn enough money to make life better.

C．Try your best to get higher position and pay.

D．Don't let it affect your real life.

(5) It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

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A．the author is a success in personal life

B．the author didn't try her best to work well

C．the author spent all her time caring for her children

D．the author likes travelling very much

　　A grown-up person has ten or eleven pints（品脱）of blood inside his or her body. We can lose a pint of blood without feeling anything, but if we lose a great deal of blood, we feel weak and cold. Our faces become pale. We may die.

　　This is what often happens when somebody is hurt in an accident（事故）or a soldier is hurt in a battle Many people used to die in this way. But nowadays（当今）they can be taken to the hospital. If they are given more blood at once, they will feel better. Their faces are no longer pale. They do not die.

　　Where does this blood come from? People who are healthy give some blood so that it can be used in this way. Every three months they go to a place where blood is collected. A special kind of needle（注射针）is put into the arm. It does not hurt. The blood runs through the needle and through a rubber tube（胶管）into a bottle. A pint of blood is taken in this way. Then the person who has given the blood drinks a cup of tea or coffee. He sits down for a few minutes. Then he feels quite well and goes off. Three months later he comes back and gives another pint.

　　A person who gives blood in this way feels happy. He knows that his blood will be used to save someone's life. Perhaps one day he himself will need blood.

　　When you are older, you may decide to give blood in this way. But you cannot do this until you are eighteen.

(1) There are ________ pints of blood in a grown-up body.

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(2) When people who have lost a lot of blood are given more blood they ________.

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(3) When people give blood, the blood is collected in a ________.

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(4) A person who has given blood can give blood again after ________.

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(5) A person cannot give blood if he is ________.

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　　SAN FRANCISCO--The“Reading Wizard”（巫师）, an 11-year-old boy, whose offer to read to children without being paid at a local library was refused by libraries, will get to read to younger kids after all.

　　Mayor Willie Brown last Wednesday ordered San Francisco Public Library officials to al-low John O'Connor to read to preschool children to get them interested in books and stop them from watching television and video games.

　　“I didn't expect this kind of attention,”John said.“It's just shocking.”

　　John has chosen his first book, The King's Giraffe, and made up fliers inviting neighborhood children, aged from three to six, to the Presidio Branch every Wednesday afternoon He planned to call himself the“Reading Wizard”and wear a special hat, fake glasses and a black coat.

　　But his idea was refused--on the phone, in person and finally with a letter from Toni Bernardi, the chief of the library's children and youth services. Using terms like“age-appropriate material”（适龄读物）,she wrote that only library workers were allowed to read to children.

　　John then went to a member of the city board of supervisors（督导董事会）, who advised him to write letters to the library officials.“Our libraries are supposed to turn kids on, not turn them off.”

(1) Who is the“Reading Wizard”?

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(2) The 11-year-old boy asked librarians at the local library for permission to ________.

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(3) By dressing up as a wizard, the boy probably hoped to ________.

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A．put up a performance

B．frighten the three-year-old boys

C．get the officials shocked

D．attract the children's attention

(4) We can infer that Mayor Willie Brown ________.

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A．praised the boy for his new idea

B．received a call from the library for children

C．informed the boy to stop reading to children

D．held a party for John and his friends at the library

(5) The underlined sentence in the passage means that our libraries ________.

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A．should allow kids to read to younger children

B．should get children interested, not bored

C．should open the door while the children are outside

D．will turn on the lights when kids come in, and turn them off when kids go out

　　Many experiments have been done to see what happens to people if they are not allowed to naturally follow the sleep cycle. In the experiments people are usually tested to see whether they can function（活动）normally if they are not allowed to dream. They are waken as soon as they enter the active part of the sleep cycle where dreaming takes place. They are then test-ed to decide how this has effects on them.

　　In many experiments, the people being test-ed went to sleep. As soon as their eyes began to move--a sign that dreaming has begun, they were awakened. Every time they began to dream, they were awakened. Two important changes took place in the people, who became very nervous and easily got angry if they were not allowed to dream. And, the more often they were awakened, the more often they tried to dream. In other words, the length of passive（消极的）part of the sleep cycle became shorter and shorter. The re-searchers came to the conclusion（结论）that dreaming was caused by some chemical processes（过程）in the brain and that the brain produced the chemical in order for dreaming to take place. The fact that people tried to dream more if they were not allowed to dream naturally, led them to believe that we need to dream in order to be in balance（平衡）.

(1) Scientists have done many experiments to see ________.

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A．whether or not people dream in their sleep

B．how many dreams a person has in his or her sleep

C．whether people can act normally if they are not allowed to dream in their sleep

D．what kind of people dream in their sleep

(2) When one is asleep, the movement of his eyes shows that________.

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(3) One becomes ________ if he is not allowed to dream in his sleep.

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(4) ________ is needed in order to keep one in balance.

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(5) The best headline of the passage is“________”.

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A．An Interesting Experiment

B．Sleep and Dream

C．To Keep Balance in Dream

D．Don't Bother People When They Are Asleep.

　　On October 8th, 2004 Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize.

　　Maathal, 64, founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, which has been carried out mainly by women in the villages of Kenya, who through protecting their environment and through the paid work are able to better care for their children and their future. The Green Belt Movement has planted more than 30 million trees across Africa. Maathai served as national chairperson for the National Council（委员会）of Women of Kenya.

　　She thought the environment is very important in the aspects（角度）of peace because when we destroy our resources and our resources become scarce, we fight over that. She is working to make sure we don't only protect the environment; we also improve governance.

　　She was the first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctor's degree and to head a university department in Kenya. Having earned a biology degree from Mount St. Scholastica College in Kansas and a master's degree at the University of Pittsburgh, Maathai returned to Kenya and earned a PhD at the University of Nairobi.

　　Peace on earth depends on our ability to protect our living environment. Maathai is a strong voice speaking for the best forces in Africa to promote（促进）peace and good living conditions on that continent. Maathai stands at the front of the fight to ecologically（生态学地）promote development in Kenya and in Africa.

　　Maathai won the prize worth 1.36 million US dollars. She became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize; she is the seventh African to win the prize since it was first awarded in 1901.

(1) Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

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A．Maathai Won the Prize Worth 1.36 Million US Dollars

B．The Nobel Peace Prize in 2004

C．Kenyan Environmentalist Wangari Naathai

D．The First African Woman to Win the Nobel Prize

(2) Maathal has won the prize mainly because of her work in _____.

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A．doctor's degree

B．caring for children in Africa

C．planting more than 30 million trees

D．peace and good living conditions in Africa

(3) That continent in paragraph 5 refers to ______.

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(4) Which of the following statements is NOT true about Maathal?

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A．She has a doctor's degree.

B．She earned a master's degree in the University of Nairobi.

C．She is head of a department in a university.

　　If you met her at a party, you would notice how attractive she is. If you only heard her soft voice, you would want her as a considerate friend.

　　But if you came across her work, you would be surprised to discover that Yu Hongyan（于红岩）is the efficient（能干的）general manager of the Zhaodaola Internet Co Ltd，a major player on the Internet.

　　Yu, who prefers to be called Ruby, is the founder of Zhaodaola, the Website devoted to the fashionable（流行的）lifestyles of city women.

　　Yu describes herself as a witness to the growth of the Internet in China.

　　When her father encouraged her to major in the computer at college in 1979, Yu did not suspect（怀疑）what computers would mean to her own life. They bored her, and she tried to remove interest in them.

　　“It's difficult for me to give up something once I start,” she said.“My motto（座右铭）is ' stick to something and you will accomplish it. '”

　　And she did． Since its founding, Zhaodaola has become one of the most popular sites among city women. More than 500,000 visit it every day.

　　The site is“purple and pink”.“Purple” refers to problems concerning men and women , including sexual education.“Pink” refers to the romantic side of white-collar life.

　　“I want women to speak up about their real selves on our website,” Yu aid.“I want them to be braver and more independent.”

　　Yu has lived abroad for the past 16 years. She speaks as a woman familiar with the ways women in other countries think and live.

    “I want to show that Net surfing is not hard for women. Just do it. You'll find interesting things there.”she promised.

(1) From the passage，we can see Yu Hongyan is a woman of ______.

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A．self-importance

B．strong-will and self-confidence

C．self-respect

D．self-consideration

(2) The romantic side of white-collar life in paragraph 8 means ______.

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A．the romantic side of tile life of the office workers

B．the romantic side of the life of the office workers wearing white-collar shirts

C．the romantic side of the life of the office managers

D．the romantic side of the life of city women

(3) Which of the following is the most suitable title for the passage?

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A．At First Bored with Computer, but Yu Mastered it Then.

B．Efficiency Has No Gender（性别）

C．City Women Have More to Say than City Men

D．Purple and Pink

(4) The underlined word“accomplish” probably means ______.

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A．succeed in doing

B．fail to do

C．give up

　　After a quick breakfast in the station restaurant, Peter set off to look for room where he could live for the next few months. He knew exactly what he wanted; a room which was not too small, nor so large that it would be difficult to heat in winter. It had to be clean and comfortable too, but above all, it had to be quiet. In the newspaper he had bought from the bookshop, there were very few advertisements（广告）for rooms to let. But, as he glanced down the page, a notice caught his eye.

　　This seemed hopeful, so he made a note of the address and set off in search of the agency. He found it in a narrow street just off the main road. The woman at the desk gave him a bright smile as he entered and , after Peter had explained what sort of room he was looking for, he paid two pounds for a list of about half a dozen landladies who had rooms to let.

(1)What does the text mainly describe? ________

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A．Peter's room-hunting experience.

B．Peter's determination to find room.

C．The difficulties in finding rooms.

D．The housing market.

(2)Peter's most important consideration in choosing a room was that it should be ________.

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(3)The underlined word“this”in the second paragraph refers to ________.

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　　If you are planning to study in the United States. you need to consider several factors（因素）. Everyone has different opinions about the best place to live in. Also, the best places to live in are not always home to the best schools. Finally, many schools specialize in different areas of study. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for example, is a great school for computer science and technology-related fields of study. However, if you want to study oceanography, your interests may be better served by attending school in a place that is on a coastline or near the ocean.

　　Now I am sure that you know which schools are considered the best in the country. So I will tell you about which states I believe are the best to live in.

　　California is a nice state. Northern California specifically has very good weather. Los Angeles in southern California is another story though. Life in L. A. is full of excitement and fast, and sometimes dangerous. As for me. I enjoyed the time I spent in Massachusetts, Virginia and Maryland and these states have a lot of history and culture: The weather is not as perfect as in California, but it is still quite nice. My favorite area of America is the Midwest. Middle America, I think, is home to the true American sense of values. In additon, there are many good universities there.

　　Also, you need to think about your likes and dislikes and then research the various states. You like sunshine and hate snow? Then you probably won't like the Midwest or even the Northeast. Open space, nature and peace and quiet? Then you probably should stay away from America's larger cities. Are you interested in government? Then Washington D. C. is the only place for you. Whatever you decide, put some thought into it. The place where you live could be the difference between a great study abroad experience and a state of great suffering on earth.

(1)From the first paragraph we can conclude that in the USA ________.

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A．all colleges and universities lie in big cities

B．all colleges and universities lie in beautiful places

C．famous colleges and universities lie in nice places

D．famous colleges and universities may not lie in nice places

(2)What should be considered first if you want to study in the USA? ________

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(3)From the third paragraph we can find that California is ________.

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(4)If you study in Middle America, you can probably ________.

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A．find the best universities

B．feel the real character of the nation

C．meet the most famous professors there

D．face more difficulty

　　For the last twelve years CPSB has had the pleasure of hosting a learning event we call a Forum. We started offering programs in Sarasota in February 1991 and our first Forum was held in 1992 as a small group meeting. Being from the Northern USA, this was a particularly good time to go south for the warmth of our friendships with Dr. Treffinger and Dr. Noller and to keep away from the cold winter.

　　The Forum is the only chance to learn about various topics of the creativity and innovation（革新）and from those who have rich experience and interest in the field. The theme of the 2004 Forum includes searching for a few new methods, sharing lessons from experience, and learning and exchanging ideas on cutting-edge research.Space_is_limited,_so_early_registration（登记）is_welcome.

　　Meeting the Innovation Challenge

　　February 6 and 7,2004

　　The Lido Holiday Inn

　　Sarasota, Florida

　　$ 750 (registration includes some meals and materials)

　　Interested in becoming qualified to use the VIEW assessment（评估）of Problem Solving Style? The two days just before our Forum provides you just that chance. For more information on VIEW see pages 24～25.

　　VIEW Qualification Course

　　February 4 and 5, 2004

　　The Lido Holiday Inn

　　Sarasota, Florida

　　$ 650 (registration includes lunch and course materials)

　　Special Offer: If you would like to attend the VIEW qualification course and the Forum, you can register for both events for $1 050.

(1)According to this advertisement, at the Forum people ________.

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A．come together in order to form an organization

B．express different opinions and discuss public matters

C．eat together to celebrate their success or victory

D．work together for the purpose of business or trade

(2)If you register both the VIEW qualification course and the Forum at the same time, you will save ________.

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(3)“Space is limited, so early registration is welcome”means ________.

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A．space is limited, so you can't register now

B．space is too limited for you to register

C．you'll lose the good chance if you don't register soon

D．you'll be given a special offer if you register now

(4)The main purpose of this advertisement is to ________.

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A．encourage more people to attend the Forum in time

B．promise everyone can pay less money to attend the Forum

C．call on the people in the north of the USA to go south for holidays