填空题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} For each numbered bracket in the following passage, fill in a suitable word in the blank on the ANSWER SHEET. Old people are always saying that the young people are not{{U}} (61) {{/U}}they were. The same comment is{{U}} (62) {{/U}}from generation to generation and it is always{{U}} (63) {{/U}}. It has never been truer than it is today. The young are better educated. They have a lot more money to spend and enjoy{{U}} (64) {{/U}}freedom. They grow up more quickly and are not so{{U}} (65) {{/U}}on their parents. Events which the older generation remember vividly are{{U}} (66) {{/U}}more than past history. This is as it should be. Every new generation is{{U}} (67) {{/U}}from the one that preceded it. Today the difference is very marked indeed. The old always assume that they know best for the simple{{U}} (68) {{/U}}that they have been{{U}} (69) {{/U}}a bit longer. They don't like to feel that their values are being questioned or threatened. And this is precisely what the{{U}} (70) {{/U}}are doing. They are questioning the{{U}} (71) {{/U}}of their eiders and disturbing their complacency. They take leave to{{U}} (72) {{/U}}that the older generation has created the best of all possible words. What they reject more than{{U}} (73) {{/U}}is conformity. Office, hours, for instance, are nothing more than enforced slavery. Wouldn't people work best if they were given complete freedom and{{U}} (74) {{/U}}? And what{{U}} (75) {{/U}}the clothing? Who said that all the men in the world should{{U}} (76) {{/U}}drab grey suits? If we turn our{{U}} (77) {{/U}}to more serious matters, who said that human differences can best be solved through conventional politics or by violent means? Why have the older generation so often used{{U}} (78) {{/U}}to solve their problems? Why are they are so unhappy and guilt-ridden in their personal lives, so obsessed with mean ambitions and the desire to amass more and more{{U}} (79) {{/U}}possessions? Can anything be right with the rat-race? Haven't the old lost{{U}} (80) {{/U}}with all that is important in life?

填空题The speaker says that ______.A. many people produce designs for stampsB. few people are interested in stamp designC. people will never agree about stamp design

填空题In Microsoft's latest attempt to reach out to bloggers, the company recently gave away expensive laptops loaded【C1】______its new Windows Vista operating system. But the gifts generated controversy as well as good【C2】______, with some bloggers accusing Microsoft of bribery and their peers【C3】______unethical behavior. Several bloggers reported last week that they had received Acer Ferrari laptops, which can sell【C4】______more than $ 2,200, from Microsoft. A spokeswoman for Microsoft confirmed Friday that the【C5】______had sent out about 90 computers to bloggers【C6】______wrote about technology and other subjects that could be【C7】______by the new operating system, like photography and, oddly, parenting. But while those on Microsoft's mailing list initially greeted the machines with enthusiasm, many【C8】______bloggers soon objected—not because they had been left off the list but, they said, because bloggers are bound by the【C9】______rules as traditional journalists, who should not accept【C10】______gifts from companies they cover.

填空题Office revolution (not only) has changed (how) work is done but (redefined) the function of everyone who (works) in an office. A. not only B. how C. redefined D. works

填空题He left instead of causing trouble. (rather than) ______.

填空题{{B}}Passage 2{{/B}} Lewis Thomas was born in 1913 in Flushing, New York to a family physician and his nurse wife. He was fascinated by his father's profession, and it became a baseline for his later understanding of the dramatic changes, not always good ones in his opinion, in the practice of medicine in the twentieth century. He entered Princeton at 15 where he was an average student, but he developed an interest in poetry and literary humor, writing much "good bad verse," as he described it, for the Princeton Tiger, which showed primarily his sense of humor about undergraduate life but no particular interest in the natural world. He was admitted to Harvard Medical School in 1933, at the time when medicine was changing dramatically into a clinical science and antibiotics would soon be developed. During his internship at Boston City Hospital he supported himself by donating blood and publishing a dozen poems in the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Bazaar, and the Saturday Evening Post.{{U}} (71) {{/U}}He completed a residency in neurology at the Columbia Presbyterian Medieal Center and married Beryl Dawson, whom he later called his editorial collaborator, in 1941. He began his medical career as research fellow in neurology at the Thorndike Memorial Laboratories. He was called for service in 1942 with the Naval Reserve as a medical researcher assigned to the Pacific.{{U}} (72) {{/U}}His developing interest in immunological defense mechanisms became the base of his later research; he would later write a long essay on it, "On Disease," in The Medusa and the Snail. In 1948 Thomas went to Tulane University as a researcher in microbiology and immunology. He was noted for his creativity and ability to generate original hypotheses.{{U}} (73) {{/U}}He became head of the pathology department at New York University Medical School in 1954, where over the next fifteen years he helped transform immunology into a clinical science and built unusually collaborative and interdisciplinary research teams. He would also chair the Department of Medicine at Bellevue Hospital.{{U}} (74) {{/U}}However, he never abandoned his clinical and research concerns, and moved to Yale in 1969 to continue research in the pathogenesis of mycoplasma diseases. In 1971, while Thomas was chairman of the Department of Pathology at the Yale Medical School, his friend Dr. Franz Ingelfinger, the editor Of the New England Journal of Medicine, asked him to write a monthly essay, called "Notes of a Biology Watcher." Each essay would be about 1,000 words, firing a page of the Journal; there would be no pay, but there would also be no editing of his work.{{U}} (75) {{/U}} A. Lewis Thomas died in 1993 after a life of remarkable accomplishment. B. After the war he went to Johns Hopkins to practice pediatrics and conduct research on rheumatic fever. C. He became Dean of the NYU School of Medicine, beginning an administrative career. D. Most of these lyrical poems were about medical experiences, death, and war. E. In 1950 he joined the University of Minnesota to continue his research on rheumatic fever. F. That was a deal that Thomas said he could not resist.

填空题The development of writing was one of the great human inventions. It is difficult (51) many people to imagine language without writing; the spoken word seems intricately tied to the written (52) . But children speak (53) they learn to write. And millions of people in the world speak languages with (54) written form. Among these people oral literature abounds, and crucial knowledge (55) memorized and passed (56) generations. But human memory is short-lived, and the brain's storage capacity is finite. (57) overcame such problems and allowed communication across the miles (58) through the years and centuries. Writing permits a society (59) permanently record its poetry, its history and its technology. It might be argued (60) today we have electronic means of recording sound and (61) to produce films and television, and thus writing is becoming obsolete. (62) writing became extinct, there would be no knowledge of electronics (63) TV technicians to study; there would be, in fact, little technology in years to (64) . There would be no film or TV scripts, no literature, no books, no mails, no newspapers, no science. There would be (65) advantages: no bad novels, junk mails, poison-pen letters, or "unreadable" income-tax forms, but the losses would outweigh the (66) . There are almost as (67) legends and stories on the invention of writing as there are (68) the origin of language. Legend has it that Cadmus, Prince of Phoenicia and founder of the city of Thebes, (69) the alphabet and brought it with him to Greece. In one Chinese fable the four-eyed dragon-god T'sang Chien invented writing. In (70) myths, the Babylonian god Nebo and the Egyptian god Thoth gave humans writing as well as speech.

填空题 A teacher is someone who communicates information or skill so that someone else may learn. Parents are the {{U}}(51) {{/U}} teachers. Just by living with their child and {{U}}(52) {{/U}} their everyday activities with him, they teach him their language, their values and their manners. Information and skills difficult to teach {{U}}(53) {{/U}} family living are taught in a school by a person {{U}}(54) {{/U}} special occupation is teaching. Before 1900 it {{U}}(55) {{/U}} widely assumed that a man was qualified to teach if he could read and write and {{U}}(56) {{/U}} qualified if he knew arithmetic. With modest {{U}}(57) {{/U}} like these, it is no {{U}}(58) {{/U}} that teachers had low salaries and little prestige. Literature and history frequently portray teachers {{U}}(59) {{/U}} fools and ignoramuses. By the late 19th century, there were {{U}}(60) {{/U}} that the status of teachers was slowly {{U}}(61) {{/U}}. Great educators such as Mann and Henry Barnard, and innovative thinkers such as Dewey and Parker began to command a {{U}}(62) {{/U}} that in a few decades had to some {{U}}(63) {{/U}} permeated classrooms in the United States. Progress was more glacial than meteoric, however,{{U}} (64) {{/U}} the last half of the century. In the 20th century the status of teachers rose as the standards {{U}}(65) {{/U}} their education rose. By 1950 the average teacher had an education that greatly exceeded that of the average citizen.

填空题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each underlined sentence or part of a sentence. You may have to change a word, add a word or just delete a word. If you change a word, cross it out with a slash (—) and write the correct word near it. If you add a word, write the missing word between the words (in brackets) immediately before and after it. If you delete a word, cross it out with a slash (—). Put your answers in the ANSWER SHEET. (46){{U}}Clonaid, a company associated by a group that believes extraterrestrials created mankind, announced Friday that it had produced the first clone of a human being.{{/U}} According to the spokeswoman, it is a baby girl who appears to have been born healthy. (47) As we know, {{U}}cattle, mice, sheep and other animals have been cloned in the past years with mixing success.{{/U}} (48) {{U}}All cloned animals have displayed defects later in life.{{/U}} (49) {{U}}Scientists fear same could happen with cloned humans.{{/U}} (50) {{U}}The company Clonaid is viewed skeptical by most scientists, who doubt the group's technical ability to clone a human being.{{/U}} (51) {{U}}But the Clonaid spokeswoman said an dependent expert will confirm the baby's clone status through DNA testing.{{/U}} (52) {{U}}Clonaid is lead by Brigitte Boisselier a former deputy director of research at the Air Liquide Group, a French producer of industrial and medical gases.{{/U}} (53) {{U}}Clonaid is also linked to a sect called the Raelians whose founder, Claude Vorihon, describes himself for a prophet and calls himself Rael.{{/U}} (54) {{U}}The group believes cloning could extend human life for hundred of years.{{/U}} In fact, Clonaid has been racing the Italian fertility doctor Severion Antinori to produce the first cloned baby. (55) {{U}}Antinori said in last month he expected one of his patients to give birth to a cloned baby in January.{{/U}}

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填空题Smog-choked Southern California demands them. It's a car for people who never want to go to a gas station again. But the fact is, for all the talk, selling gasless machines has been a hard-sell.A.demandsB.aC.aslessD.hard-sell

填空题On a summer evening I was caught in the crossfire of dueling wood thrushes, each defending his portion of the forest. Their chosen weapons were their voices; melodies were their ammunition. Each sought to wound the other's pride, but their sweet fluting pierced only the evening silence. (71) I doubt that the duelists saw one another, because the wood thrush is content to pour out his nocturne from the middle of a low limb draped by leaves. He needs no approving audience and can project his voice without resorting to a singing perch in the treetop. The brown-backed, speckle-breasted, eight-inch wood thrush only looks drab. All of his beauty is concentrated in his voice. Let the scarlet tanager take the prize as the forest's flashiest dresser. Among his winged brethren, the song of the wood thrush has no equal. He sings more enchantingly than any bird I know. (72) On the trail, I often find myself stopping to admire the wood thrush's gift. After wintering mainly in Mexico and Central America, wood thrushes return north to breed. The male's echoing melody challenges his rivals, wakes the raccoon and serenades the woodland sojourner. In California they don't hear wood thrushes, which in summer occur only in the eastern forest. It's enough to prevent me from moving West. (73) While traveling in Europe, John James Audubon got homesick for "the sweet melodious strains of that lovely recluse, my greatest favorite, the Wood Thrush." Henry David Thoreau said, "He touches a depth in me which no other bird's song does," and he called the wood thrush "a Shakespeare among birds." Ancient magic lives on in the woods. (74) The Pilgrims must have heard it, too, and perhaps the wood thrush comforted them in their wild new world. The wood thrush's song consists of several phrases, variations on his basic ee-o-lay theme, in quality like a flute but richer, not airy. Each phrase usually concludes with a high-pitched chord. Throaty utterings audible at close range may introduce the next phrase. The song's ending is sometimes marked by a downsliding note that slows and trails off. After a pause, the song is repeated. Occasionally, the wood thrush launches into a series of sustained intonations, a haunting counterpoint to his primary song. (75) Some are almost mechanical, others merely sweet--the inspired wood thrush sings with a certain soulfulness. He plays his fine vocal instrument with great sweetness, yet there is an undercurrent of sadness. He speaks to me of struggle and survival, of loss and rebirth, and ultimately of hope. He awakens me to the indefinable yearnings that humans and wood thrashes share.A. A special gene make certain wood thrushes exceptional.B. Lyrical, liquid and loud, his voice has beauty and depth to match nature's.C. There is wide variation in the singing ability of wood thrushes.D. I was moved, but both wood thrushes stood their ground.E. You can go there and hear what Audubon and Thoreau heard, the same song Native Americans heard in the virgin forest.F. His singular talent won this common bird the unabashed affection of two of America's foremost naturalists, an artist and a writer.