What are the man' s hobbies?

What is Helen' s major? What is Helen' s major?

{{B}}Section I Listening Comprehension (25 minutes)Directions: This section is designed to test your ability to understand spoken English. You will hear a selection of recorded materials and you must answer the questions that accompany them. There are TWO parts in this section, Part A and Part B.　　Remember, while you are doing the test, you should first put down your answers in your test booklet. At the end of the listening comprehension section, you will have 3 minutes to transfer your answe{{/B}}

Flying over a desert area in an airplane, two scientists looked down with trained eyes at trees and bushes. After an hour's flight, one of the scientists wrote in his book, "Look here for probable metal." Scientists in another airplane, flying over a mountain area, sent a message to other scientists on the ground, "Gold possible." Walking across hilly ground, four scientists reported, "This ground should be searched for metal." From an airplane over a hilly wasteland a scientist sent back by radio one word: "Uranium." None of the scientists had X-ray eyes: they had no magic power of looking down below the earth's surface. They were merely putting to use one of the newest methods of locating minerals in the ground... trees and plants as signs that certain minerals may lie beneath the ground on which the trees and plants are growing. This newest method of searching for minerals is based on the fact that minerals deep in the earth may affect the kind of bushes and trees that grow in the surface. At Watson Bar Greek, a brook(小溪) six thousand feet high in the mountains of British Columbia, Canada, a mineral search group gathered bags of tree seeds. Boxes were filled with small branches from the trees. Roots were dug and put into boxes. Each bag and box was carefully marked. In a scientific laboratory, the parts of the forest trees were burned to ashes and tested. Each small part was examined to learn whether there were minerals in it. Study of the roots, branches, and seeds showed no silver. But there were small amounts of gold in the roots and a little less gold in the branches and seeds. The seeds growing nearest to the tree trunks had more gold than those growing on the ends of the branches.

How can we prevent juvenile crime?

With the world' s population estimated to grow from six to nine billion by 2050, researchers, businesses and governments are already dealing with the impact, this increase will have on everything from food and water to infrastructure and jobs. Underling all this【C6】______will be the demand for energy, which is expected to double over the next 40 years. Finding the resources to meet this demand in a【C7】______, sustainable way is the cornerstone of our nation' s energy security, and will be one of the major【C8】______of the 21st century. Alternative forms of energy-bio-fuels, wind and solar, to name a few are【C9】______being funded and developed, and will play a growing【C10】______in the world' s energy supply. But experts say that even when【C11】______, alternative energy sources will likely meet only about 30% of the world' s energy needs by 2050. For example, even with【C12】______investments, such as the $ 93 million for wind energy development【C13】______in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, important alternative energy sources such as wind and bio-fuels【C14】______only about 1 % of the market today. Energy and sustainability experts say the answer to our future energy needs will likely come from a lot of【C15】______both traditional and alternative. [A]consist[B]solutions[C]certainly [D]stable[E]comprise[F]competitions [G]exactly[H]growth[I]included [J]role[K]progress[L]marvelous [M]challenges[N]combined[O]significant

Where is George now?

Steveland Morris is a household name in America. Ask Steveland Morris and he’ll tell you that blindness is not necessarily disabling. Steveland was born prematurely(过早地，不到期地)and totally without sight in 1950s. He became Stevie Wonder—composer, singer, and pianist. The winner of ten Grammy awards, Stevie is widely acclaimed(喝采)for his outstanding contributions to the music world. As a child, Stevie learned not to think about the things he could not do, but to concentrate on the things that he could do. His parents encouraged him to join in his sighted brothers as many activities as possible. They also helped him to sharpen his sense of hearing, the sense upon which the usually disabled are so dependent. Because sound was so important to him, Stevie began at an early age to experiment with different kinds of sound. He would bang things together and then imitate the sound with his voice. Often relying on sound for entertainment, he sang, beat on toy drums, played a toy harmonica(口琴), and listened to the radio. Stevie soon graduated from toy instruments to real instruments. He first learned to play the drums. He then mastered the harmonica and the piano. He became a member of the junior church choir(唱诗班)and a lead singer. In the evenings and on weekends, Stevie would play different instruments and sing popular rhythm and blues tunes on the front porches(走廊)of neighbors' homes. One of Stevie' s sessions was overheard by Ronnie White , a member of a popular singing group called The Miracles. Ronnie immediately recognized Stevie' s talent and took him to audition(试听)for Berry Gordy, the president of Hitsville USA, a large recording company now known as Motown. Stevie recorded his first smash hit "Fingertips" in 1962 at age twelve, and the rest of Stevie' s story is music history.

One in six. Believe it or not, that' s the number of Americans who struggle with hunger. To make tomorrow a little better, Feeding America, the nation' s largest【C6】______hunger relief organization, has chosen September as Hunger Action Month. As part of its 30 days in 30 days program, it' s asking【C7】______across the country to help the more than 200 food banks and 61 ,000 agenda in its network provide low income individuals and families with the fuel they need to【C8】______ It' s the kind of work that' s done every day at St. Andrew' s Episcopal Church in San Antonio. People who【C9】______at its front door on the first and third Thursdays of each month aren' t looking for God—they' re there for something to eat. St. Andrew' s runs a food pantry that【C10】______the City and several of the【C11】______towns. Janet Drane is its manager. In the wake of the【C12】______, the number of families in need of food assistance began to grow, It is【C13】______that 49 million Americans are unsure of where they will find their next meal. What's the most surprising is that 36% of them live in【C14】______where at least one adult is working. " It used to be that one job was all you needed," says St. Andrew' s Drane. "The people we see now have three or four part-time jobs and they' re still right on the edge【C15】______" [A]accumulate[B]recession[C]domestic [D]competition[E]communities[F]households [G]formally[H]gather[I]financially [J]circling[K]reported[L]serves [M]reviewed[N]surrounding[O]survive

What is the woman' s major? What is the woman' s major?

Your friend Bob wants to know something about the library in your school. Write an email to Bob, telling him about: 1)the location and opening time of the library: 2)the inner environment of the library: 3)and the functions of the library. You should write about 100 words. Do not sign your own name at the end of your email. Use "Wang Lin" instead.

Which facility is not available in the apartment building? Which facility is not available in the apartment building?

{{B}}Section III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes){{/B}}

When do people usually wear T-shirts? When do people usually wear T-shirts?

How did the name of "computer virus" come into being?

{{B}}Section II Use of English (15 minutes)Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word or phrase for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.{{/B}}

Why does the woman advise the man the sublet?

What didn' t the man know before he comes to buy the book?

There was one thought that air pollution affected only the area immediately around large cities with factories and heavy automobile traffic. At present, we realize that although these are the areas with the worst air pollution, the problem is literally worldwide. On several occasions over the past decade, a heavy cloud of air pollution has covered the east of the United States and brought health warnings in rural areas away from any major concentration of manufacturing and automobile traffic. In fact, the very climate of the entire earth may be infected by air pollution. Some scientists consider that the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the air resulting from the burning of fossil fuels (coal and oil)is creating a "greenhouse effect"—conserving heat reflected from the earth and raising the world' s average temperature. If this view is correct and the world's temperature is raised only a few degrees, much of the polar ice cap will melt and cities such as New York, Boston, Miami, and New Orleans will be in water. Another view, less widely held, is that increasing particular matter in the atmosphere is blocking sunlight and lowering the earth's temperature—a result that would be equally disastrous. A drop of just a few degrees could create something close to a new ice age, and would make agriculture difficult or impossible in many of our top farming areas. Today we do not know for sure that either of these conditions will happen (though one recent government report drafted by experts in the field concluded that the greenhouse effect is very possible). Perhaps, if we are lucky enough, the two tendencies will offset each other and the world' s temperature will stay about the same as it is now. Driven by economic profit, people neglect the damage on our environment caused by the "advanced civilization". Maybe the air pollution is the price the human beings have to pay for their development. But is it really worthwhile?

What are the speakers doing as the conversation begins?