english practice(9)
ENGLISH EXERCISE(14.2.25-14.2.28)!
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Name:______________!
Paper I!
I.choice!
1. As a receptionist, my job ______________ answering phone calls and offering general information about the company.!
A. is involved with
B. consists of
C. requires
D. evolves!
2. This entrance is in __________ use: don not block it. !
A. constant
B. tender
C. creative
D. critical !
3. “Take the medicine and go to bed early. If the headache ________________, you should come for an X-ray examination,” said the doctor.!
A. recurs
B. happens
C. recovers
D. repeats !
4. ______________ by a strange loud noise downstairs, the two girls jumped from their bed and screamed.!
A. Stunned
B. Amazed
C. Promoted
D. Startled !
5. I have told her on ____________ occasions that George is not a man to be trusted.!
A. ridiculous
B. numerous
C. sentimental
D. alternative !
6. The renewal f the debate was anticipated but its _________ was not.!
A. intensity
B. tension
C. degree
D. sensitivity !
7. While the doctors analyzed the patient’s condition, his family waited outside in considerable
___________.!
A. tension
B. anticipation
C. eagerness
D. anxiety!
8. It wasn’t the dinner. It was ___________ people talked about at the dinner that disgusted him.!
A. what
B. that
C. whatever
D. those!
9. ______________ a little earlier this morning! I missed the school bus by only a minute and had to wait in the cold for nearly an hour!!
A. If I had got up
B. If only I get up !
C. If only I had got up
D. If I got up !
10. Though this house is very old and may not be worth much, it is ____________ great emotional value to my father who spent all his childhood days here.!
A. by
B. of
C. with
D. for!
11. The _________ breakdowns of the computer have caused serious delays in our work.!
A. continuous
B. continued
C. continuing
D. continual !
12. Sports help to build character and _________ competitiveness. !
A.cultivate
B. accomplish
C. assist
D. restore !
II.phrase translation!
13.His remarks left me ____________________________（ 想知道他的真实目的 ）.!
14.If you had_____________________ （ 听从了我的劝告，你就不会陷入麻烦）
15.Though you stay in the sea for weeks, you will not____________（ 失去联系 ） the outside world.!
16.The ?fth generation computers, with arti?cial intelligence,_____________（ 正在研制 ） and perfected now.!
17.How close parents are to their children_________________ __（ 有很强的影响 ） the character of the children.!
18.The room is in a terrible mess; it _____________________ （肯定没打扫过） .!
19.With tears on her face, the lady _____________________ （看着他受伤的儿子被送进手术室）
Paper II!
https://www.wendangku.net/doc/0b2409023.html,e of english!
20.Fill the blanks in the passage with the words in the box. Each words can be used only once.! What is it about Americans and food? We love to eat, but we feel _ S1 _ about it afterward. We say we want only the best, but we strangely enjoy junk food. We're S2 with health and weight loss but face an unprecedented epidemic of obesity(肥胖). Perhaps the S3 to this ambivalence(矛盾
情结) lies in our history. The ?rst Europeans came to this continent searching for new spices but went in vain. The ?rst cash crop(经济作物) wasn’t eaten but smoked. Then there was Prohibition, intended to prohibit drinking but actually encouraging more S4 ways of doing it.!
The immigrant experience, too, has been one of inharmony. Do as Romans do means eating what “real Americans” eat, but our nation’s food has come to be S5 by imports—pizza, say, or hot dogs. And some of the country’s most treasured cooking comes from people who arrived here
in shackles.!
Perhaps it should come as no surprise then that food has been a medium for the nation’s de?ning struggles, whether at the Boston Tea Party or the sit-ins at southern lunch counters. It is integral to our concepts of health and even morality whether one refrains from alcohol for religious reasons or evades meat for political S6 .!
But strong opinions have not brought S7 . Americans are ambivalent about what they put in their mouths. We have become S8 of our foods, especially as we learn more about what they contain.!
The S9 in food is still prosperous in the American consciousness. It's no coincidence, then, that the ?rst Thanksgiving holds the American imagination in such bondage(束缚). It's what we eat—and how we S10 it with friends, family, and strangers—that help de?ne America as a community today. !
A. answer
B. result
C. share
D. guilty
E. constant
F. de?ned
G. vanish!
H. adapted I. creative J. belief K. suspicious L. certainty M. obsessed!
N. identify O. ideals!
21.The following is a rough draft of a student’s report, which may contain errors.!
Sequoias!
The sequoia is a redwood tree that was named in honor of a Native American chief called Sequoyah. This tree is one of the largest living things on Earth. It can grow nearly 400 feet high and 30 feet across. The sequoia is also one of the longest-living things on Earth. One tree can live as long as 2,000 years. A close relative, the giant sequoia, may live 3,000 or more years.!
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There is evidence that suggests that sequoias were found in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere during ancient times. Today they can be found in groves along the coast of northern California and southern Oregon. They grow only in altitudes below 3,300 feet.!
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The sequoia’s trunk can rise about 100 feet without a single branch. As the sequoia ages, its lower branches fall away. The dark brown bark of the sequoia can be as thick as 12 inches. It has deep furrows, or rows, in it, and it is very spongy. The sequoia’s thick bark helps the tree survive forest ?res. The bark also helps the tree resist damage from insects.!
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If a sequoia falls over or is cut down, it begins to grow again soon afterward. It does this by producing new sprouts from the remaining stump. However, it takes hundreds of years for the new trees to reach full size. Every year many sequoia trees are cut down to make lumber. Redwood lumber is popular because it has an attractive color and lasts a long time. Redwood lumber is used for fence posts, paneling, shingles, and furniture. There are not as many sequoias as there used to be, but people are working to preserve more of these incredible trees.!
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Although these trees are cut for lumber, many sequoias can be found in pertected groves within California’s national parks. Redwood National Park, in Northwestern California, has among its thousands of acres of redwoods the tallest known sequoia, which rises 367.5 feet into the air.! (1)Read this sentence from paragraph 2.!
There is evidence that suggests that sequoias were found in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere during ancient times.!
What is the correct way to spell the underlined word?!
A segests
B sugests
C seggests
D Leave as is. !
(2)Read this sentence from paragraph 4.!
There are not as many sequoias as there used to be, but people are working to preserve more of these incredible trees.!
What is the correct way to write the underlined words? !
https://www.wendangku.net/doc/0b2409023.html,ed to be but people
https://www.wendangku.net/doc/0b2409023.html,ed to be but, people
https://www.wendangku.net/doc/0b2409023.html,ed to be, but, people
D.Leave as is.!
(3)Read this sentence from paragraph 5. !
Although these trees are cut for lumber, many sequoias can be found in pertected groves within California’s national parks. !
What is the correct way to spell the underlined word? !
A pretected
B protected
C pratected
D Leave as is. !
(4)Read this part of a sentence from paragraph 5. !
Redwood National Park, in Northwestern California, has . . . !
What is the correct way to write the underlined words? !
A Redwood National Park, in northwestern California !
B Redwood national park, in Northwestern California !
C Redwood national park, in northwestern California !
D Leave as is. !
22.There are 20 blanks in the following passage, for each blanks there are 4 choices. Choose the answer that ?ts the context.!
Children model themselves largely on their parents. They do so mainly through identi?cation. Children identify S1 a parent when they believe they have the qualities and feelings that are S2 of that parent. The things parents do and say—and the S3 they do and say to them—therefore strongly in?uence a child’s S4 .However, parents must consistently behave like the type of S5 they want their child to become.!
A parent’s actions S6 affect the self!image that a child forms S7 identi?cation. Children who see mainly positive qualities in their S8 will likely learn to see themselves in a positive way. Children who observe chie?y S9 qualities in their parents will have dif?culty S10 positive qualities in themselves. Children may S11 their self image, however, as they become increasingly S12 by peer group standards before they reach S13.!
Isolated events, 13 dramatic ones, do not necessarily have a permanent S14 on a child’s behavior. Children interpret such events according to their established attitudes and previous training. Children who know they are loved can, S15 , accept the divorce of their parent’s or a parents early S16 .But if children feel unloved, they may interpret such events S17 a sign of rejection or punishment.!
In the same way, all children are not in?uenced S18 by toys and games, reading matter, and television programs. S19 in the case of a dramatic change in family relations, the S20 of an activity or experience depends on how the child interprets it.!
S1.A.to B.with C.around D.for!
https://www.wendangku.net/doc/0b2409023.html,rmed B.characteristic C.conceived D.indicative!
S3.A.gesture B.expression C.way D.extent!
S4.A.behavior B.words C.mood D.reactions!
S5.A.person B.humans C.creatures D.adult!
S6.A.in turn B.nevertheless C.also D.as a result!
S7.A.before B.besides C.with D.through!
S8.A.eyes B.parents C.peers D.behaviors!
S9.A.negative B.cheerful C.various https://www.wendangku.net/doc/0b2409023.html,plex!
S10.A.see B.seeing C.to see D.to seeing!
S11.A.modify B.copy C.give up D.continue!
S12.A.mature B.in?uenced C.unique D.independent!
S13.A.not B.besides C.even D.?nally!
S14.A.idea B.wonder C.stamp D.effect!
S15.A.luckily B.for example C.at most D.theoretically!
S16.A.death B.rewards C.advice D.teaching!
S17.A.as B.being C.of D.for!
S18.A.even B.at all C.alike D.as a whole!
S19.A.Oh B.Alas C.Right D.As!
S20.A.result B.effect C.scale D.cause!
23.There are 20 blanks in the following passage, for each blanks there are 4 choices. Choose the answer that ?ts the context.!
Space is a dangerous place, not only because of meteors(流星) but also because of rays from the sun and other stars. The atmosphere again acts S1 our protective blanket on S2 .Light gets through, and this is essential S3 plants to make the food which we S4 .Heat, S5 , makes our environments tolerable and some ultraviolet rays(紫外线的) penetrate the S6 .Cosmic(宇宙的) rays of various kinds come S7 the air from outer space, but S8 quantities of radiation from the sun are screened off. S9 men leave the atmosphere they are S10 to this radiation; S11 their spacesuits or the walls of their spacecraft, if they are inside, S12 prevent a lot of radiation damage. Radiation is the greatest known danger to explorers in S13 .Doses of radiation are measured in S14 called“rems (雷目)”.We all S15 radiation here on earth from the sun, from cosmic rays and from radioactive minerals. The“ S16 ”dose of radiation that we receive each year is about two millirems(毫雷姆); it S17 according to where you live, and this is a very rough estimate. Scientists have reason to think S18 a man can S19 far more radiation S20 without being damaged; the ?gure of 60 rems has been agreed.!
S1.A.for B.with C.on D.as!
S2.A.stars B.sun C.earth D.space!
S3.A.with B.from C.under D.for!
https://www.wendangku.net/doc/0b2409023.html,e B.live C.eat D.get!
S5.A.again B.also C.besides D.too!
S6.A.environment B.space C.atmosphere D.earth!
S7.A.across B.to C.from D.through!
S8.A.valid B.enormous C.various D.proper!
S9.A.As soon as B.As well as C.As much as D.As possible as!
S10.A.shown B.exposed C.faced D.covered!
S11.A.but B.because C.so D.so that!
S12.A.get B.make C.have D.do!
S13.A.earth B.atmosphere C.space D.environment!
S14.A.pieces B.units C.parts D.elements!
S15.A.receive B.accept C.bring D.catch!
S16.A.conventional https://www.wendangku.net/doc/0b2409023.html,mon C.general D.normal!
S17.A.shifts B.converts C.modi?es D.varies!
S18.A.what B.which C.that D.why!
S19.A.put up with B.keep up with https://www.wendangku.net/doc/0b2409023.html,e up with D.catch up with!
S20.A.from B.than C.as D.away!
IV.Reading and responding!
24.read the following passage and answer the questions!
The Merci Train!
by Rita J. Markel!
On February 3, 1949, New York Harbor was an exciting place to be. Airplanes ?ew overhead. Whistles blew, and bells sounded. Small boats circled in the water. Crowds cheered from the docks. They were there to greet a ship that carried a very special cargo. Onboard were 49 railroad boxcars ?lled with gifts from the people of France to the people of America. There was one boxcar for each of the existing 48 states, and one to be shared by the District of Columbia and the Territory of Hawaii. These boxcars became known as the Merci Train.!
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Following the end of World War II (1939–1945), France was almost in ruin. Factories, roads, bridges, and farms had been destroyed by bombings. Many French people were without jobs or money. They had little to wear and little to eat.!
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In the winter of 1947, Americans set out to help. A train was sent across the United States, stopping in cities and towns along the way. At every stop, people gave whatever they could. Factories gave goods, clothing, and medicines. Grocers and farmers gave food. Families gave money. Even school children donated their pennies. The train’s contents were then shipped to France.!
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By 1949, the French had begun to recover from the war’s destruction. The Merci Train was their way of saying “thank you” to America for the help they had needed so badly. French citizens had
?lled the boxcars with gifts. They sent tapestries, china, statues—even Napoleon’s sword. But most of the gifts were personal, like hand-made dolls, toys, children’s drawings, postcards, scrapbooks, even wedding dresses. In short, the people sent the things they treasured most that had not been lost in the war.!
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But the boxcars themselves were perhaps the most meaningful of the gifts. On each, the French people had painted the coats of arm of all their 40 provinces. They added red, white, and blue stripes, the colors of both the French and American ?ags. Each car had an American eagle painted on its front. These boxcars, which had once been used to move troops into battle, would never again be used for war.!
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From New York, the boxcars were delivered by rail to each state. Both children and adults waited eagerly for the Merci Train to arrive. Everyone wondered what their state’s boxcar would contain. When the boxcars arrived and the contents displayed, there were celebrations everywhere. Speeches were given, parades were held, and the news of the event was broadcast on the radio and reported in newspapers.!
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A number of the states kept their wonderful boxcars. Some have been carefully maintained or restored and can still be visited. Gifts sent by the French people can still be seen at certain state museums and historical societies. The Merci Train came out of the ruins of war, but it is a reminder that nations can also work together in peace and goodwill.!
(Merci = a French word meaning thank you)!
(1)Which statement best describes the way the author attracts the reader’s interest in the ?rst paragraph? !
A She includes the names of speci?c places. !
B She uses descriptive language to set the scene. !
C She uses italic print for the name of the boxcars. !
D She makes it longer than other paragraphs in the article. !
(2)According to the article, the purpose of the train stopping in cities across America in 1947 was to !
F collect donations !
G gather troops for battle !
H show museum items and exhibits !
J display factory clothing and food!
(3)The arrival of the Merci Train in America signaled that France was !
A competing with the Americans !
B fascinated by the railway system !
C interested in learning about America !
D recovering from the effects of the war !
(4)Which statement is supported by information in the article? !
F The Merci Train was an example of friendship and goodwill between two countries. !
G The donations from the Americans to the French came mostly from wealthy people. !
H The excitement surrounding the arrival of the Merci Train was limited to the New York Harbor. !
J The exchange of goods between the two countries solved most of the problems caused by war.!
(5)Which sentence re?ects an opinion expressed by the author of the article?!
A The boxcars would never again be used for war. !
B The boxcars were wonderful and exciting to see. !
C The American people donated to the people of France. !
D Many French people sent personal items to the Americans. !
25.read the following passage and answer the questions!
Many great inventions are greeted with ridicule and disbelief. The invention of the airplane was no exception. Although many people who heard about the ?rst powered ?ight on December 17,1903, were excited and impressed, others reacted with peals of laughter. The idea of ?ying an aircraft was repulsive to some people. Such people called Wilbur and Orville Wright, the inventors of the ?rst ?ying machine, impulsive fools. Negative reactions, however, did not stop the Wrights. Impelled by their desire to succeed, they continued their experiments in aviation.!
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Orville and Wilbur Wright had always had a compelling interest in aeronautics and mechanics. As young boys they earned money by making and selling kites and mechanical toys. Later, they designed a newspaper-folding machine, built a printing press, and operated a bicycle-repair shop. In 1896, when they read about the death of Otto Lilienthal, the brother′s interest in ?ight grew into a compulsion.!
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Lilienthal, a pioneer in hang-gliding, had controlled his gliders by shifting his body in the desired direction. This idea was repellent to the Wright brothers, however, and they searched for more
ef?cient methods to control the balance of airborne vehicles. In 1900 and 1901, the Wrights tested numerous gliders and developed control techniques. The brothers′ inability to obtain enough lift power for the gliders almost led them to abandon their efforts.!
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After further study, the Wright brothers concluded that the published tables of air pressure on curved surfaces must be wrong. They set up a wind tunnel and began a series of experiments with model wings. Because of their efforts, the old tables were repealed in time and replaced by the ?rst reliable ?gures for air pressure on curved surfaces. This work, in turn, made it possible for them to design a machine that would ?y. In 1903 the Wrights built their ?rst airplane, which cost less than one thousand dollars. They even designed and built their own source of propulsion- a lightweight gasoline engine. When they started the engine on December 17, the airplane pulsated wildly before taking off. The plane managed to stay aloft for twelve seconds, however, and it ?ew one hundred twenty feet.!
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By 1905 the Wrights had perfected the ?rst airplane that could turn, circle, and remain airborne for half an hour at a time. Others had ?own in balloons or in hang gliders, but the Wright brothers were the ?rst to build a full-size machine that could ?y under its own power. As the contributors of one of the most outstanding engineering achievements in history, the Wright brothers are accurately called the fathers of aviation.!
(1).The idea of ?ying an aircraft was ___to some people.!
A. boring!
B. distasteful!
C. exciting!
D. needless!
E. answer not available!
(2). People thought that the Wright brothers had ____.!
A. acted without thinking!
B. been negatively in?uenced!
C. been too cautious!
D. had not given enough thought!
E. acted in a negative way!
(3). The Wright′s interest in ?ight grew into a ____.!
A. ?nancial empire!
B. plan!
C. need to act!
D. foolish thought!
E. answer not in article!
(4). Lilenthal′s idea about controlling airborne vehicles was ___the Wrights.(!
A. proven wrong by!
B. opposite to the ideas of!
C. disliked by!
D. accepted by!
E. opposed by!
(5). The old tables were __ and replaced by the ?rst reliable ?gures for air pressure on curved surfaces.!
A. destroyed!
B. canceled!
C. multiplied!
D. discarded!
E. not used!
(6). The Wrights designed and built their own source of ____.!
A. force for moving forward!
B. force for turning around!
C. turning!
D. force to going backward!
E. none of the above!
26.read the following passage and answer the questions!
Yo! Walk that Dog!
by Barbara Kerley!
The yo-yo may seem like a modern toy, as American as apple pie, but it’s actually very old. It may have been invented in the Philippines or in China, but as long ago as 450 B.C., it had reached Europe. A boy playing with what we now call a yo-yo is even shown on a bowl from ancient Greece.!
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It wasn’t until the 1930s, however, that yo-yos became an American fad. Pedro Flores, a Filipino immigrant working in California, began to make and sell yo-yos in the 1920s. (The word yo-yo means “come back” in a Filipino language.) A few years later, Flores sold his company to Donald Duncan, an American businessman. Duncan, an ingenious marketer, sent demonstrators called Duncan Champions around the country to show off yo-yo tricks and give out free instruction booklets. When kids saw the cool tricks, they wanted yo-yos for themselves.!
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Soon Duncan Champions were organizing contests across the country. Competing kids would perform tricks for points—ten if the trick was performed successfully on the ?rst try, ?ve for the second try. Whoever earned the most points won. In the case of a tie, ?rst place went to the kid who could do the most Loop-the-Loops without stopping.!
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Yo-yos have remained popular for decades. In the 1950s Duncan’s factory produced up to 60,000 every day. In Nashville in 1961, more yo-yos were sold than there were people living in the city.! !
With practice, anyone can learn yo-yo tricks and perform them well. The ?rst thing you’ll need to do is cut the yo-yo’s string to the proper length. Place the yo-yo on the ground and pull the string up until it reaches just above your waist. Clip it, tie a slipknot, and slide it onto your middle ?nger, between the ?rst and second knuckle. Wind up the string and hold your yo-yo in your palm. Flick it down, turning your hand over to catch it when it returns. Practice until you’ve mastered a smooth, comfortable rhythm. You’re now ready to go to Sleep.!
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Sleeping is the basis for many tricks. Begin with the regular toss, but once the yo-yo leaves your hand, hold your wrist absolutely still. Instead of returning, the yo-yo should spin at the bottom of the string. A quick ?ip of the wrist will bring it back to you. If you have trouble sleeping, try a glass of warm milk at bedtime. If your yo-yo has trouble Sleeping, make sure your string isn’t twisted up too tightly. Let the yo-yo unwind and gently untwist itself.!
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Practice Sleeping until you can do it for ?ve seconds without having your yo-yo “wake up.” Once you can do that, you’re ready to Walk the Dog. Toss down a Sleeper, then gently place it on the
?oor. As when walking any dog on a leash, you’ll need to follow along behind.!
(1)Read the sentence from paragraph 2 of the passage.!
Duncan, an ingenious marketer, sent demonstrators called Duncan Champions around the! country to show off yo-yo tricks and give out free instruction booklets.!
What does the word ingenious mean in the passage?!
A.elderly !
B.clever !
C.foreign !
D.wealthy !
(2)Why is Sleeping the basis for Walk the Dog?!
A.Sleeping builds con?dence for mastering more complicated types of tricks. !
B.Sleeping allows practice at concentrating while walking behind a moving yo-yo. !
C.Walk the Dog involves ?icking the wrist quickly to unwind the string where it connects to the yo-yo. !
D.Walk the Dog requires that the yo-yo remain at the end of the string for a sustained amount of time. !
(3)In paragraph 6, what is the author’s purpose for including the advice, “If you have trouble sleeping, try a glass of warm milk at bedtime”?!
A.to give practical information to the reader !
B.to make a joke involving yo-yo terminology !
C.to show how easy it is to learn new tricks !
D.to compare two types of yo-yo techniques !
(4)Which statement below best identi?es the two central ideas of the passage?!
A.The yo-yo is an ancient toy with an interesting history in America, and learning tricks with !
the yo-yo is possible with practice. !
B.Donald Duncan was responsible for marketing the yo-yo as a popular toy, and making a yo-yo Sleep is an essential part of many other tricks. !
C.Pedro Flores ?rst introduced the yo-yo in California in the 1920s, but Duncan Champions created interest in learning how to do various tricks with the yo-yo. !
D.Many people believe wrongly that the yo-yo is an American invention, but the modern yo-yo can do many things that ancient yo-yos could not do. !
27.read the following passage and answer the questions!
Search begins for 'Earth' beyond solar system!
Staff and agencies!
Wednesday December 27, 2006!
Guardian Unlimited !
P1. A European spacecraft took off today to spearhead the search for another "Earth" among the stars. !
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P2. The Corot space telescope blasted off aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan shortly after 2.20pm. !
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P3. Corot, short for convection rotation and planetary transits, is the ?rst instrument capable of
?nding small rocky planets beyond the solar system. Any such planet situated in the right orbit stands a good chance of having liquid water on its surface, and quite possibly life, although a leading scientist involved in the project said it was unlikely to ?nd "any little green men". !
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P4. Developed by the French space agency, CNES, and partnered by the European Space Agency (ESA), Austria, Belgium, Germany, Brazil and Spain, Corot will monitor around 120,000 stars with its 27cm telescope from a polar orbit 514 miles above the Earth. Over two and a half years, it will focus on ?ve to six different areas of the sky, measuring the brightness of about 10,000 stars every 512 seconds. !
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P5. "At the present moment we are hoping to ?nd out more about the nature of planets around stars which are potential habitats. We are looking at habitable planets, not inhabited planets. We are not going to ?nd any little green men," Professor Ian Roxburgh, an ESA scientist who has been involved with Corot since its inception, told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme. !
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P6. Prof Roxburgh said it was hoped Corot would ?nd "rocky planets that could develop an atmosphere and, if they are the right distance from their parent star, they could have water". !
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P7. To search for planets, the telescope will look for the dimming of starlight caused when an object passes in front of a star, known as a "transit". Although it will take more sophisticated space telescopes planned in the next 10 years to con?rm the presence of an Earth-like planet with oxygen and liquid water, Corot will let scientists know where to point their lenses. !
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P8. Measurements of minute changes in brightness will enable scientists to detect giant Jupiter-like gas planets as well as small rocky ones. It is the rocky planets - that could be no bigger than about twice the size of the Earth - which will cause the most excitement. Scientists expect to ?nd between 10 and 40 of these smaller planets. !
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P9. Corot will also probe into stellar interiors by studying the acoustic waves that ripple across the surface of stars, a technique called "asteroseismology". !
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P10. The nature of the ripples allows astronomers to calculate a star's precise mass, age and chemical composition. !
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P11. "A planet passing in front of a star can be detected by the fall in light from that star. Small oscillations of the star also produce changes in the light emitted, which reveal what the star is made of and how they are structured internally. This data will provide a major boost to our understanding of how stars form and evolve," Prof Roxburgh said. !
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P12. Since the discovery in 1995 of the ?rst "exoplanet" - a planet orbiting a star other than the Sun - more than 200 others have been found by ground-based observatories. !
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P13. Until now the usual method of ?nding exoplanets has been to detect the "wobble" their gravity imparts on parent stars. But only giant gaseous planets bigger than Jupiter can be found this way, and they are unlikely to harbour life. !
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P14. In the 2010s, ESA plans to launch Darwin, a ?eet of four or ?ve interlinked space telescopes that will not only spot small rocky planets, but analyse their atmospheres for signs of biological activity. !
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P15. At around the same time, the US space agency, Nasa, will launch Terrestrial Planet Finder, another space telescope designed to locate Earth-like planets.!
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(1). Corot is an instrument which!
(A) can help to search for certain planets!
(B) is used to ?nd planets in the orbit !
(C) can locate planets with human beings!
(D) can spot any planets with water.!
(2). Scientists are trying to ?nd out about the planets that can be inhabited.!
A.true
B.false
C.not given !
(3). BBC Radio 4 recently focuses on the broadcasting of Corot.!
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(4). Passing objects might cause a fall in light.!
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(5). Corot can tell whether there is another Earth-like planet.!
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(6)Based on your reading of the passage, complete the sentences below with words taken from the passage. Use NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. !
With measurements, scientists will be able to search for some gaseous and rocky planets. They will be extremely excited if they can discover some small i. __________, the expected number of which could be up to ii. __________ . !
Corot will enable scientists to study the iii. __________ of stars. In this way, a star’s mass, age and chemical composition can be calculated.!
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According to Prof Roxburgh, changes in light can be caused by passing planets or star iv.
__________. The related statistics can gain us a better v. __________ of the star formation and evolvement.!
Observatories have found many exoplanets, which are vi. __________ other stars than the Sun. The common way used in ?nding exoplanets can only detect huge gas planets, which do not vii.
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With the launching of Darwin, astronomers will be able to analyse whether those rocky planets have viii. __________ for life.!
V.paragraph translation!
28.端午节，又叫龙舟节，是为了纪念爱国诗人屈原。屈原是一位忠诚和受人敬仰的大臣（minister）,他给国家带来了和平和繁荣。但最后因为受到诽谤（vilify）而最终投河自尽。人们撑船到他自尽的地方，抛下粽子，希望鱼儿吃粽子，不要吃屈原的身躯。几千年来，端午节的特色在于吃粽子（glutinous dumplings）和赛龙舟，尤其是在一些河湖密布的南方省份。
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__________________________________________________________________________! 29.2013年6月20日在中国各地，剧估计60万儿童和他们的老师观看了有宇航员（astronaut）王亚平在距离地球300公里的上空所讲授的科学课。王亚平与两个同事乘坐天宫一号实验舱(theTiangon-1 laboratory module) 执行为期两周的任务。她在课上进行了一系列太空的物理演示。在有些演示中还对比了在地球上重力（one-gravity）环境下同样的实验。这堂物理课不仅让孩子们享受了一堂知识与乐趣兼具的物理课，也显示了我国通信科技的前进。
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I.!
1B2A3A4D5B6A7D8A9C10B11D12A!
II.!
13.wondering about his real response!
14.followed my advice, you wouldn’t fall into trouble!
15.lose contact with!
16.are being developed!
17.has a strong in?uence on!
18.couldn’t have been cleaned!
19.was watching her injured son being sent to the operation room!
III.!
20.S1D S2M S3A S4I S5F S6B S7L S8K S9J S10C!
21.(1)D(2)D(3)B(4)A!
22.S1B S2B S3C S4A S5A S6C S7D S8B S9A S10B S11A S12B S13C S14D S15B S16A S17A
S18C S19D S20B!
23.S1D S2C S3D S4C S5D S6C S7D S8B S9A S10B S11A S12D S13C S14B S15A S16D S17D S18C S19A S20B!
IV.!
24.(1)B(2)F(3)D(4)F(5)B!
25.(1)B(2)A(3)C(4)C(5)B(6)A!
26.(1)B(2)D(3)B(4)A!
27.(1)A(2)A(3)C(4)A(5)B!
(6)i rocky planets ii 40 iii interiors iv oscillations v understanding vi orbiting vii harbour life! viii atmospheres!
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28.The Duanwu Festival, also called the DragonBoat Festival, is to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. Qu Yuan was a loyal and highly esteemed minister, who brought peace and prosperity to the state but ended up drowning himself in a river as a result of being vili?ed.People got to the spot by boat and cast glutinous dumplings into the water,hoping that the ?shes ate the dumplings instead of Qu Yuan’s body. For thousands of years, the festival has been marked by glutinous dumplings and dragon boat races, especially in the southern provinces where there are many rivers and lakes.!
29.On June 20, 2013, an estimated 600 thousand school children and their teachers across China watched a science lesson taught from 300km above the Earth by astronaut Wang Ya ping. Wang is aboard the Tiangong-1 laboratory module with two crew mates, for a two-week mission. Her lessons were a series of physics demonstrations in the space. In some demonstrations,she compared with the same experiment under the one-gravity environment onEarth. The lesson has not only offered children a physics lesson with knowledge and interest, but also shows the advance in communication technology of China.!