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单选题{{B}}Text 2{{/B}} Amphibious vehicles, those that can move on both land and water, have been in use for a number of years, but while most of them were fairly fast on land, they moved quite slowly when they were functioning as boats. The only truly amphibious vehicle that can move with equal ease on both land and water is the hovercraft (气垫船). The hovercraft is the invention of an electronics engineer named Christopher Cockerell. Cockerell's hobby was sailing and he was interested in the problem of reducing the friction of water on the body of a boat, and hit on the idea of designing a boat which would travel on a cushion of air. The air cushion under a hovercraft is produced by a large fan which blows air downwards between the craft and the water or ground, and so lifts up the craft. The air is main-rained at higher than atmospheric pressure by a flexible rubber "skirt" around the bottom edge of the hovercraft, preventing leakage of air from the cushion. Because the hovercraft floats on the air cushion with no contact between the craft and the surface below, it can travel over flat, rough ground or water with ease. Hovercraft are usually driven by air screws like propellers (螺旋桨), which face back-wards and "push" the craft forwards, and can be turned to direct the hovercraft. Since there is no propeller dipping below the craft, hovercraft can travel up slopes out of the water, or land on beaches. Cockerell's Air Cushion Vehicles, or ACVs, are now familiar to everyone and like all inventions, they have been improved upon. British Sea speed hovercraft have been carrying passengers and cars across the English Channel since 1968. They now have a "stretched" version of their Mountbatten Class hovercraft which can carry up to 60 cars and 416 passengers between Britain and France in a little over half an hour. A new, large-sized hovercraft, designed and built in France, called the Sedam N500 of Naviplane, has now goneinto service. The 155 tonne N500 is 50 metres long (162 feet) and 23 metres wide (76 feet) and can carry 65 cars, plus five coaches, together with 400 passengers. When the sea conditions are ideal the N500 can reach 112 kph (70 mph). A variation of the hovercraft principle is the sidewall ACV, which is more economical than the flexible skirt models, and easier to control, but it cannot be used on land. The United States Navy have been experimenting with warships based on the sidewall principle, and some of these may well reach a speed of 160kph (100mph).

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单选题Whatdoesthewomanmean?

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单选题What is the skin?

单选题WhatdidMrs.Turnerseewhilewalkingaloneinthestreetonenight?A.Anelderlywidow.B.Twoyouths,tallwithfairhair.C.Twoyouths,shortandfatwithabeardandmoustache.D.Twoyouths,onetallandoneshort.

单选题Questions 22 to 25 are based on the following passage.

单选题Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word or phrase for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on your ANSWER SHEET. The first English dictionary, called an Alphabetical Table of Hard Words, was published in 1604. The dictionary was actually{{U}} (26) {{/U}}a list of about 3 000 difficult words, each followed by a one word{{U}} (27) {{/U}}. The author, Robert Cawdrey,{{U}} (28) {{/U}}to include everyday words in his dictionary.{{U}} (29) {{/U}}, he reasoned, would ever have to look up a word in a dictionary if he already knew the meaning of the word. During the 1600' s more dictionaries were published. Each followed Cawdrey' s{{U}} (30) {{/U}}and presented a few thousand{{U}} (31) {{/U}} words. Around 1700 one dictionary maker, John Kersey,{{U}} (32) {{/U}}define easy words as well as hard ones. But until the 1750' s all dictionaries were rather{{U}} (33) {{/U}}and not very valuable. A man named Dr. Samuel Johnson{{U}} (34) {{/U}}all this. In 1755 Dr. Johnson produced the first modern dictionary. He{{U}} (35) {{/U}}in his dictionary all important words, both easy and hard, and he gave good meanings. He also gave good sentences to show how each word was{{U}} (36) {{/U}}used in speech and{{U}} (37) {{/U}}. By the end of the 1700' s most dictionary makers{{U}} (38) {{/U}}Johnson' s lead. Dictionaries were getting better and better. The 1800' s{{U}} (39) {{/U}}the greatest improvement{{U}} (40) {{/U}}the quality of dictionaries. In England scholars planned and prepared the Oxford English dictionary, a{{U}} (41) {{/U}}work. One of the most interesting{{U}} (42) {{/U}}of the Oxford Dictionary is its word histories. It{{U}} (43) {{/U}}the history of each word from its earliest{{U}} (44) {{/U}}use{{U}} (45) {{/U}}the time of the printing of the dictionary.

单选题For the (26) month, mysterious falls of large chunks of ice (冰雹) (27) rained down on Spain and Italy. Juana Sanchez, a 70-year-old woman in Almeria, southern Spain, was knocked (28) when she was struck on the shoulder by a falling ice chunk (29) she walked in a street (30) her home. On January 12, just about 200 miles away in Seville, a man narrowly (31) serious injury when a 9-pound ball of ice (32) into his car. (33) the evening of January 27 priests at the Salesian monastery in L'Aquila, Italy were startled by a loud crash. (34) the noise, they discovered a large chunk of ice on their yard, (35) intact. Upon examination, the block of ice (36) in at 2 kilograms and no source (37) . On the same day, about 100 miles northeast in Ancona, Italy, the local officials were called to investigate the report of a man (38) was struck (39) the head by a 1 kilogram chunk of ice that apparently fell from the sky. Spain and Italy aren't the only European (40) getting attacked by huge ice blocks in January. On January 2 in Surrey, England ( southwest of London) , an East Indian man was walking through Newton Athletic Park when he (41) a strange whistling sound overhead. Seconds (42) , a large hunk of ice fell out of the clear blue sky and pounded into the soft ground, shattering over a 50foot-wide area. The ice dug a hole of a foot deep and a foot in diameter. Even the shattered remains of the mystery ice were as large as tennis balls and were described as opaque (43) no unusual color or smell. Although eyewitnesses to the phenomenon report that they did not see anything in the sky that could account (44) the ice, scientists had to come up with a rationalization. Professor Jesus Martinez Frias, the geologist investigating the ice falls in Spairl, told BBC News that the ice pieces had probably been (45) through sudden temperature drops in the stratosphere. This was the most likely explanation, he said, for the "very unusual" phenomenon.-

单选题—Hello, Mary. You ______ very happy. —Yes. I am happy. My parents are coming to see me this afternoon. [A] get [B] look [C] turn

单选题Where do you think the article is going to appear?

单选题Questions 14-17 are based on a conversation you are going to hear.

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单选题WhatisSallydoingnow?A.TypinglettersforMr.Black.B.TypingareportforMrs.Farnsworth.C.TypingareportforMr.Black.D.TypinglettersforMrs.Farnsworth.

单选题The Man of Many Secrets—Harry Houdini—was one of the greatest American entert-ainers in the theater this century. He was a man famous for his escapes—from prison cells, from wooden boxes floating in rivers, from locked tanks full of water. He appeared in theaters all over Europe and America. Crowds came to see the great Houdini and his "magic" tricks. Of course, his secret was not magic or supernatural powers. It was simply strength. He had the ability to move his toes as well as he moved his fingers. He could move his body into almost any position he wanted. Houdini started working in the entertainment world when he was 17, in 1891. He and his brother Theo performed card tricks in a club in New York. They called themselves the Houdini Brothers. When Harry married in 1894, he and his wife Bess worked together as magician and assistant. But for a long time they were not very successful. Then Harry performed his first prison escape, in Chicago in 1898. Harry persuaded a detective to let him try to escape from the prison, and he invited the local newspapermen to watch. It was the publicity (宣传) that came from this that started Harry Houdini's success. Harry had fingers trained to escape from handcuffs and toes trained to escape ankle chins. But his biggest secret was how he unlocked the prison doors. Every time he went into the prison cell, Bess gave him a kiss for good luck—and a small skeleton key, which is a key that fits many locks, pass quickly from her mouth to his. Harry used these prison escapes to build his fame. He arranged to escape from the local prison of every town he visited. In the afternoon, the people of the town would read about it in their local newspapers, and in the evening every seat in the local theater would be full. What was the result? World-wild fame and a name remembered today.

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单选题{{B}}Part A{{/B}} {{I}} You will hear 10 short dialogues. For each dialogue, there is one question and four possible answers. Choose the correct answer--A, B, C or D, and mark it in your test booklet. You will have 15 seconds to answer the question and you will hear each dialogue ONLY ONCE.{{/I}}