填空题The tension between a yearning for a more relaxed lifestyle and the knowredge that the benchmark for success has been raised in recent years weighs heavily on the minds of the townspeople. ______ They are afraid that any gap in their children's physical or intellectual development might mean they. won't be admitted to the "right" trniversities and won't succeed in a more and more competitive world.A. Younger students took "Save the Date for Me" fliers home to their parents.B. Nevertheless, it seems that Family Night worked, at least to a point.C. And schools and clubs agreed to cancel homework and meetings so families could relax and be together.D. But sadly, few families believe that one night will change their lives.E. For a few months before Family Night, a committee of volunteers worked hard to spread the word.F. Parents feel obligated to make sure their children are prepared to survive in today's high-pressure work environment.

填空题 阅读下面这篇短文，短文后有2项测试任务：(1) 第23～26题要求从所给的6个选项中为第2～5段每段选择1个正确的小标题；(2) 第27～30题要求从所给的6个选项中选择4个正确选项，分别完成每个句子。 Singapore 1．Singapore is an independent city-state in southeastern Asia, consisting of one major island the Singapore Island--and more than 50 small islands, located off the southern tip of Malay.The city of Singapore, the capital of the country, is at the southeastern end of the SingaporeIsland, it is one of the most important port cities and commercial centers of Southeast Asia.The total area of the republic is 640 sq. km. 2．Low-lying Singapore Island has no outstanding relief(轮廓鲜明的) features. A central area of hills rises to the maximum height of 176m. The country has a wet tropical climate, with anaverage annual temperature of 27.2℃. The average annual rainfall is 2,413 mm; the wettestmonths are November through January. 3．Singapore is governed under a constitution of 1959, as amended (修正后的). A president,elected to a four-year term, is head of state, and a prime minister is head of government. Thepresident used to be elected by Parliament, but by a 1991 constitutional amendment (宪法修正案), the president is now elected directly by the people. The Parliament is the law makingbody with its 81 members popularly elected. 4．In the late 1980s the country had some 290 primary schools with 278,300 pupils and 160 secondary schools with 200,200 students. The main institutions of higher education are theNational University of Singapore (founded in 1980 with the combination of two major univer-sities), several technical colleges, and a teachers college. 5．Singapore has one of the highest standards of living of any country in Asia. In the late 1980s the gross domestic product(GDP) was estimated at ＄ 23.7 billion, or ＄ 8,870 per per-son. The fishing industry is centered on the port of During, on southwestern Singapore Is-land. Industry has grown rapidly since the 1960s, and Singapore now produces a diversity (多样化的) of goods, including chemicals, electronic items, clothing, and processed foods, etc.Shipbuilding and petroleum refining are also important. A．Introduction to Singapore B．Education C．Economy D．State System of Singapore E．History of Singapore F．Land and Climate

填空题The Magic Io Personal Digital Pen 1. Check out the io Personal Digital Pen launched by Logitech: It's a magic pen that can store everything you write and transfer it to your computer. And you don't have to lug a hand held device along with you for it to work. 2. Logitech's technology works like this: The pen writes normally, using normal ballpoint pen ink. But while you are writing, a tiny camera inside the pen is also taking 100 snapshots per second of what you are doing, mapping your writing via a patchwork of minute dots printed on the paper. All this information—the movement of your pen on the paper, basically—is then stored digitally inside the pen, whether you are writing notes or drawing complex diagrams. You can store up to 40 pages worth of doodles in the pen's memory. As far as you are concerned, you are just using a normal pen. 3. It is only when you drop the pen into its PC-connected cradle that the fun begins. Special software on your PC will figure out what you have done, and begin to download any documents you have written since the last time it was there. Depending on whether you have ticked certain boxes on the special notepad, it can also tell whether the document is destined to be an e-mail, a "to do" task, or a diagram to be inserted into a word-processing document. Once the documents are downloaded you can view them, print them out or convert them to other formats. 4. The io Personal Digital Pen is a neat and simple solution to the problem of storing, sharing and retrieving handwritten notes, as well as for handling diagrams, pictures and other non text doodling. You don't have to carry a laptop along with you. All you have to do is just to whip out the pen and the special paper and you are off. 5. It is a great product because it does not force you to work differently—walking around with a screen strapped to your arm, or carrying with you extra bits and pieces. The pen is light and works like a normal pen if you need it to, while the special notepads look and feel like notepads. The only strange looks will be from people who are curious why you are writing with a cigar. 6. The io Personal Digital Pen also has potential elsewhere. FedEx, for example, is introducing a version of the pen so that customers can fill out forms by hand—instead of punching letters into cumbersome devices. Once that data is digital more or less anything can be done with it—transferring it wirelessly to a central computer, for example, or via a hand-phone. Doctors could transmit their prescriptions directly to pharmacies, reducing fraud; policemen could send their reports back to the station, reducing paperwork.

填空题下面的短文有5处空白，短文后有6个句子，其中5个取自短文，请根据短文内容将其分别放回原有位置，以恢复文章原貌。 American Dreams There is a common response to America among foreign writers: the US is a land of extremes where the best of things are just as easily found as the worst. This is a cliche(陈词滥调). In the land of black and white, people should not be too surprised to find some of the biggest gaps between the rich and the poor in the world. But the American Dream offers a way out to everyone. {{U}}(46) {{/U}} No class system or govenment stands in the way. Sadly, this old argument is no longer true. Over the past few decades there has been a fundamental shift in the structure of the American economy. The gap between the rich and the poor has widened and widened. {{U}}(47) {{/U}} Over the past 25 years the median US family income has gone up 18 percent. For the top 1 percent, however, it has gone up 200 percent. Twenty-five years ago the top fifth of Americans had an average income 6.7 times that of the bottom fifth. {{U}}(48) {{/U}} Inequalities have grown worse in different regions. In California, incomes for lower class families have fallen by 4 percent since 1969. {{U}}(49) {{/U}} This has led to an economy hugely in favor of a small group of very rich Americans. The wealthiest 1 percent of households now control a third of the national wealth. There are now 37 million Americans living in poverty. At 12.7 percent of the population, it is the highest percentage in the developed world. Yet the tax burden on America's rich is falling, not growing. {{U}}(50) {{/U}} There was an economic theory holding that the rich spending more would benefit everyone as a whole. But clearly that theory has not worked in reality. A. Nobody is poor in the US. B. The top 0.01 percent of households has seen its tax bite fall by a full 25 percentage points since 1980. C. For upper class families they have risen 41 percent. D. Now it is 9.8 times. E. As it does so, the possibility to cross that gap gets smaller and smaller. F. All one has to do is to work hard and climb the ladder towards the top.

填空题Every Dog Has Its Say Kimiko Fukuda, a Japanese girl, always wondered what her dog was trying to say. Whenever she put on makeup, it would pull at her sleeve. 1 When the dog barks, she glances at a small electronic gadget (装置). The following "human" translation appears on its screen: "Please take me with you." "I realized that"s how he was feeling," said Fukuda. The gadget is called Bowlingual, and it translates dog barks into feelings. People laughed when the Japanese toymaker Takara Company made the world"s first dog-human translation machine in 2002. But 300,000 Japanese dog owners bought it. 2 "Nobody else had thought about it," said Masahiko Kajita, who works for Takara. "We spend so much time training dogs to understand our orders; what would it be like if we could understand dogs?" Bowlingual has two parts. 3 The translation is done in the gadget using a database (资料库) containing every kind of bark. Based on animal behaviour research, these noises are divided into six categories. happiness, sadness, frustration, anger, declaration and desire. 4 In this way, the database scientifically matches a bark to an emotion, which is then translated into one of 200 phrases. When a visitor went to Fukuda"s house recently, the dog barked a loud "bow wow". This translated as "Don"t come this way". 5 The product will be available in US pet stores this summer for about US $120. It can store up to 100 barks, even recording the dog"s emotions when the owner is away. A. A wireless microphone is attached to the dog"s collar, which sends information to the gadget held by the owner. B. Nobody really knows how a dog feels. C. It was followed by "I"m stronger than you" as the dog growled (嗥叫) and sniffed (嗅) at the visitor. D. More customers are expected when the English version is launched this summer. E. Now, the Japanese girl thinks she knows. F. Each one of these emotions is then linked to a phrase like "Let"s play", "Look at me", or "Spend more time with me".

填空题A Thirsty World The world is not only hungry, it is also thirsty for water. This may seem strange to you, since nearly 75% of the earth"s surface is covered with water. But about 97% of this huge amount is sea-water, or salt water. Man can only drink and use the other 3%—the fresh water that comes from rivers, lakes, underground, and other sources. 1 Even worse, some of it has been polluted. At the moment, this small amount of fresh water is still enough for us. However, our need for water is increasing rapidly. Only if we take steps to deal with this problem now, can we avoid a severe worldwide water shortage later on. One of the useful steps we can take is to stop unlimited use of water. 2 In addition to stopping wasting our precious water, one more useful step we should take is to develop ways of reusing it. 3 Today, in most large cities, water is used only once and it eventually returns to the sea or runs into underground storage tanks. 4 There it can be filtered (过滤) and treated with chemicals so that it can be used again just as if it were fresh from a spring. 5 Where could we turn next? To the oceans! All we"d have to do to make use of the vast amount of sea-water is to remove the salt. This salt-removing process is already in use in many parts of the world. So if we take all these steps, we"ll be in no danger of drying up! A. A limited water supply, however, would have a bad effect on agriculture and industry. B. But it is possible to pipe water that has been used to a purifying plant. C. It is possible to purify large amounts of sea water. D. But even if every large city purified and reused its water, we still would not have enough. E. And we cannot even use all of that because some of it is in the form of icebergs and glaciers. F. Experiments have already been done in this field, but only on a small scale.

填空题Joying placed the buckets at all public-access areas to ______.

填空题Flying into History When you turn on the television or read a magazine, celebrities (名人) are everywhere. Although fame and the media play such major roles in our lives today, it has not always been that way. ______ (46) Many historians agree that Charles Lindbergh was one of the first major celebrities, or superstars. Lindbergh was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1902, but he grew up in Little Fails, Minnesota. As a child, he was very interested in how things worked, so when he reached college, he pursued a degree in engineering. At the age of 20, however, the allure (诱惑) of flying captured Lindbergh's imagination. ______(47) Soon after, Lindbergh bought his own plane and traveled across the nation performing aerial stunts (空中特技). In 1924, Lindbergh became more serious about flying. He joined the United States military and graduated first in his pilot class. ______(48) During the same time, a wealthy hotel owner named Raymond Orteig was offering a generous award to the first pilot who could fly nonstop from New York City to Paris, France. The Orteig Prize was worth $ 25, 000--a large amount even by today's standards. Lindbergh knew he had the skills to complete the flight, but not just any plane was capable of flying that far for that long. ______(49) On May 20, 1927, Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field in New York City and arrived the next day at an airstrip (简易机场) outside Paris. Named in honor of the sponsor, The Spirit of St. Louis carried Lindbergh across the Atlantic Ocean and into the record books. He became a national hero and a huge celebrity. When he returned to the United States, Lindbergh rode in a ticker-tape (热烈的) parade held to celebrate his accomplishment. ______(50) A very popular dance was even named for Charles Lindbergh--the Lindy Hop. Today, The Spirit of St. Louis is kept at the Smithsonian Institute's National Air and Space Museum in Washington,D.C.A. He also received a Medal of Honor, the highest United States military decoration.B. Eighty years ago, radio and movies were just beginning to have that kind of effect on Americans.C. Working with an aviation company from San Diego, California, and with financial help from the city of St. Louis, Lindbergh got a customized (定制的) airplane that could make the journey.D. Lindbergh used this additional training to get a job as an airmail pilot, flying out of St. Louis, Missouri.E. He quit school and moved to Nebraska where be learned to be a pilot.F. His childhood was not full of fond memories.

填空题下面的短文有5处空白，短文后有6个句子，其中5个取自短文，请根据短文内容将其分别放回原有位置，以恢复文章原貌。{{B}}CanadaIkea:WhateGreetPlaceforYoutoShop{{/B}}Therearemanydifferentstoresthatpeoplegotoinordertobuyvarioushouseholdgoods.{{U}}(46){{/U}}TheCanadaIkeaisnotconfinedtoonecityaloneinthatcountry.Insteadyouwillfindtherearemanydifferentbranchesspreadoutinmanydifferentlocalities.AswithalloftheIkeastorestheCanadaIkeadealsmainlywithsellingtopqualitySwedishfurniture.{{U}}(47){{/U}}Onefacet(方面)oftheCanadaIkeathatitscustomerswilllikeisthatthestorehastheabilityofcatering(迎合)totheirEnglishspeakingcustomersaswellastheirFrenchcustomers.TomakeshoppingforfurnitureandothergoodseasytheIkeastoresineverycountryareallsetoutinthesamemanner.{{U}}(48){{/U}}AsaresultofthistheCanadaIkeaisonethatitslocalandforeigncustomersenjoyvisiting.Tohelpmakeiteasyforyoutoshopfortheitemsthatyouwanttherearelargeblueandyellowbagsorshoppingcartsavailable.{{U}}(49){{/U}}Asyouwanderthroughthestoreyouwillfindmanyinterestingitemsthatyoucanuseforyourhomeorevenoffice.Withtheseproductsyouwillhaveabeautifulhousethatyoucanlivecomfortablyin.{{U}}(50){{/U}}TheCanadaIkeaisagreatplaceforyoutoshop.A.Thisfurnitureisdesignedtoprovidethehomeownerwithstylish(时髦的)furniturethatisalsoaffordableandperfectforeverydayuse.B.Withsomanyitemstobefoundyouaresuretowanttobuyeverythingthatcatchesyourfancy.C.Thesebagsandcartsareperfectforthemanydifferentlampshades,cushions(垫子),bedlinens(亚麻布),toysandothermediumtosmallsizedobjectsthatyouwant.D.Thismakesitveryeasyforvisitorsfromothercountriestobuytheitemstheyneedwithoutwanderingaroundthestoretryingtofindtheirgoods.E.OnesuchstorethatyoucanfindinmanydifferentcountriesincludingthatofCanadaisthatoftheIkea(宜家)chainofstores.F.ThelargersizedobjectsaredisplayedintheshowroomsoftheCanadaIkeastores.

填空题A Find a place to work on B Implementing a workable filing system C What is a good filing system D How to invest in a rolling file cart E Get rid of unimportant things F Dealing with bills

填空题 Every Dog Has Its Say Kimiko Fukuda, a Japanese girl, always wondered what her dog was trying to say. Whenever she put on makeup, it would pull at her sleeve. {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}When the dog barks, she glances at a small electronic gadget (装置). The following "human" translation appears on its screen: "Please take me with you." I realized that's how he was feeling." said Fukuda. The gadget is called Bowlingual, and it translates dog barks into feelings. People laughed when the Japanese toymaker Takara Company made the world's first dog human translation machine in 2002. But 300,000 Japanese dog owners bought it. {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}"Nobody else had thought about it," said Masahiko Kajita, who works for Takara. "We spend so much time training dogs to understand our orders; what would it be like if we could understand dogs?" Bowlingual has two parts. {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}The translation is done in the gadget using a database (资料库) containing every kind of bark. Based on animal behaviour research, these noises are divided into six categories: happiness, sadness, frustration, anger, declaration and desire. {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}In this way, the database scientifically matches a bark to an emotion, which is then translated into one of 200 phrases. When a visitor went to Fukuda's house recently, the dog barked a loud "bow wow". This translated as "Don't come this way." {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}The product will be available in U.S. pet stores this summer for about U.S. $120. It can store up to 100 barks, even recording the dog's emotions when the owner is away. A. A wireless microphone is attached to the dog's collar, which sends information to the gadget held by the owner. B. Nobody really knows how a dog feels. C. It was followed by "I'm stronger than you" as the dog growled (嗥叫) and sniffed (嗅) at the visitor. D. More customers are expected when the English version is launched this summer. E. Now, the Japanese girl thinks she knows. F. Each one of these emotions is then linked to a phrase like "Let's play", "Look at me", or "Spend more time with me"

填空题下面的短文后有2项测试任务：(1)第23～26题要求从所给的6个选项中为第3～6段每段选择1个最佳标题：(2)第27～30题要求从所给的6个选项中为每个句子确定1个最佳选项。 Electromagnetic Energy 1. White light seems to be a combination of all colors. The energy that comes from a source of light is not limited to the kind of energy you can see. Heat is given off by a flame or an electric light. On a cloudy day it is possible to get a sunburn even though you feel cool. Visible light and the kind of energy that produce warmth and sunburn are examples of electromagnetic energy. 2. The sun is 93 million miles from the earth. Yet we can use energy from the sun because electromagnetic energy travels through space. 3. Many other kinds of energy are also types of electromagnetic energy. Radio, television, and radar signals travel from transmitters to receivers as low-energy electromagnetic waves. Infrared (红外线的) radiation is an electromagnetic wave. When it is absorbed by matter, heat is produced. Waves of infrared and visible light have more energy than waves of radio, television, or radar. Ultraviolet rays (紫外线) and X-rays are electromagnetic waves with even greater amounts of energy. Infrared radiation is used in cooking food and heating buildings. Sunlight and electric lights are part of our requirements for normal living. Ultraviolet radiation is useful in killing certain disease organisms. X-rays and gamma rays have so mush energy that they travel right through solid objects. They can be used to detect and treat cancer. X-rays are used in industry to find hidden cracks in metal, and in medicine to reveal broken bones. 4. Usually we use electricity to generate electromagnetic energy. The source of most of our energy is the sun. Heat from the sun causes water to evaporate. When the water falls to the earth as rain, some of it is trapped behind dams and then used to operate electric generators. Other generators are powered by coal, but the energy stored in coal came from the sun, too. 5. Until recently, the source of the tremendous amount of energy given off by the sun was a puzzle. If the sun depended on chemical reactions, it would have used up all its energy long ago. Experiments with electromagnetic radiation led to the theory that mass can be converted into energy. About forty years after the theory was proposed, nuclear energy was harnessed (利用) by man. Chemical energy comes from electron (电子) rearrangement. Nuclear energy comes from a change in the nucleus of an atom. Compared with chemical reactions, nuclear reactions release millions of times more energy per pound of fuel. We now believe that the sun's energy comes from the nuclear reactions in which hydrogen is changed into helium (氦). 6. Nuclear energy is beginning to compete with coal as an economical source of power to generate electricity. It is also being used to operate engines in large ships. Scientists continue to seek new and better methods of obtaining and using energy. A. Nuclear Reactions as the Lasting Source of the Sun's Energy B. The Most Important Source of Energy C. Types of Electromagnetic Energy D. X-rays Are Used to Detect and Treat Cancer. E. Seeking New Sources of Energy F. Nuclear Energy is Beginning to Compete with Coal

填空题 下面的短文有5处空白，短文后有6个句子，其中5个取自短文，请根据短文内容将其分别放回原有位置，以恢复文章原貌。 Pushbike Peril Low speed bicycle crashes can badly injure or even kill children if they fall onto the end of the handlebars (自行车把).{{U}} (46) {{/U}} Kristy Arbogast, a bioengineer (生物工程师) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, began the project with her colleagues after a study of serious abdominal(腹部的) injures in children in the past 30 years and showing that more than a third were caused by bicycle accident. {{U}}(47) {{/U}} By interviewing the children and their parents, Kristy and her team were able to reconstruct many of the accidents and identified a common mechanism responsible for serious injuries. {{U}}(48) {{/U}} To maintain their balance they turn the handlebars through 90 degrees, but their momentum (动力) forces them into the end of the handlebars. {{U}}(49) {{/U}} The solution the group came up with is a hand grip (握柄) fitted with a spring and damping (缓冲) system. The spring absorbs up to 50 percent of the forces transmitted through the handlebars in an impact. {{U}}(50) {{/U}} "But our task has been one of education because up until now, bicycle manufactures were unaware of the problem," says Kristy. The term has also approached the U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to try to persuade manufactures to adopt the new design. A decision is expected later this year. A. The task according to Kristy was to identify how the injuries occurred and to come up with some countermeasures (对策). B. The group hopes to commercialize (使商业化)the device, which should add only a few dollars to the cost of a bike. C. So a team of engineers is redesigning (重新设计) the humble handlebar in a bid to make it safer. D. When the task is over, the engineers believe, there are probably no such injuries or tragedies among bicycle-drivers. E. The bike then falls over and the other end of the handlebars hits the ground ramming it into their abdomen. F. They discovered that most injuries occur when children hit an obstacle at a slow speed, causing them to topple over.

填空题American Dreams There is a common response to America among foreign writers: the U.S. is a land of extremes where the best of things are just as easily found as the worst. This is a cliche (陈词滥调). In the land of black and white, people should not be too surprised to find some of the biggest gaps between the rich and the poor in the world. But the American Dream offers a way out to everyone. 1 No class system or government stands in the way. Sadly, this old argument is no longer true. Over the past few decades there has been a fundamental shift in the structure of the American economy. The gap between the rich and the poor has widened and widened. 2 Over the past 25 years the median U.S. family income has gone up 18 percent. For the top 1 percent, however, it has gone up 200 percent. Twenty-five years ago the top fifth of Americans had an average income 6.7 times that of the bottom fifth. 3 Inequalities have grown worse in different regions. In California, incomes for lower class families have fallen by 4 percent since 1969. 4 This has led to an economy hugely in favor of a small group of very rich Americans. The wealthiest 1 percent of households now control a third of the national wealth. There are now 37 million Americans living in poverty. At 12.7 percent of the population, it is the highest percentage in the developed world. Yet the tax burden on America"s rich is falling, not growing. 5 There was an economic theory holding that the rich spending more would benefit everyone as a whole. But clearly that theory has not worked in reality. A. Nobody is poor in the U.S. . B. The top 0.01 percent of households has seen its tax bite fall by a full 25 percentage points since i980. C. For upper class families they have risen 41 percent. D. Now it is 9.8 times. E. As it does so, the possibility to cross that gap gets smaller and smaller. F. All one has to do is to work hard and climb the ladder towards the top.

填空题阅读下面这篇短文，短文后有2项测试任务；(1)第23～26题要求．从所给的6个选项中为第2～5段每段选择1个正确的小标题；(2)第27～30题要求从所给的6个选项中选择4个正确选项，分别完成每个句子。 {{B}}Icy Microbes{{/B}} 1 In ice that has sealed a salty Antarctic lake for more than 2,800 years, scientists have found frozen bacteria and algae that returned to life after thawing. The research may help in the search for life on Mars, which is thought to have subsurface lakes of ice. 2 A research team led by Peter Doran of the University Of Illinois at Chicago drilled through more than 39 feet of ice to collect samples of bacteria and algae. When Doran's team brought them back and warmed them up a bit, they sprang back to life. 3 Doran said the microbes have been age-dated at 2,800 years old, but even older microbes may live deeper in the ice sheet sealing the lake, and in the briny water below the ice. That deeper ice and the water itself will be cautiously sampled in a later expedition that will test techniques that may one day be used on Mars. 4 Called Lake Vida, the 4.5-square-kilometer body is one of a series of lakes located in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, some 2,200 kilometers due south of New Zealand. This lake has been known since the 1950s, but people ignored it because they thought it was just a big block of ice. While at the site for other research in the 1990s, Doran and his colleagues sent radar signals into the clear ice covering the lake and were surprised to find that 62 feet below there was a pool of liquid water that was about seven times more salty than seawater. 5 That prompted the researchers to return in 1996 with equipment to drill a hole down to within a few feet of the water layer. At the bottom of this hole, researchers harvested specimens of . algae and bacteria. 6 The researchers will return in 2004 equipped with instruments that are sterilized. They will then drill through the full 62 feet of ice and sample some of the briny water from the lake for analysis. The water specimen will be cultured to see if it contains life. Specimens from the water are expected to be even older than the life forms extracted from the ice covering.

填空题A Major Composer Ludwig van Beethoven, a major composer of the nineteenth century, overcame many personal problems to achieve artistic greatness. Born in Bonn, Germany, in 1770, he first studied music with the court organist, Gilles van der Eeden. His father was excessively strict and given to heavy drinking. 1 . Appointed deputy court organist to Christian Gottlob Neefe at a surprisingly early age in 1782, Beethoven also played the harpsichord and the viola. In 1792 he was sent to Vienna by his patron, Count Ferdinand Waldstein, to study music under Haydn. Beethoven remained unmarried. 2 Continually plagued by ill health, he developed an ear infection which led to his tragic deafness in 1819. 3 . He completed mature masterpieces of great musical depth: three piano sonatas, four string quartets, the Missa Solemnis, and the 9th Symphony. He died in 1827. 4 . Nothing that Beethoven often flew into fits of rage, Goethe once said of him, "I am astonished by his talent, but he is unfortunately an altogether untamed personality." 5 . A. In spite of this handicap, however, he continued to write music. B. Because of irregular payments from his publishers and erratic support from his patrons, he was troubled by financial worries throughout his adult life. C. His life was marked by a passionate dedication to independence. D. When his mother died, Beethoven, then a young man, was named guardian of his two younger brothers. E. Although Beethoven"s personality may have been untamed, his music shows great discpline and control, and this is how we remember him best. F. Today his music is still being played all over the world.

填空题 阅读下面这篇短文，短文后有2项测试任务：(1)第23～26题要求从所给的6个选项中为第2～5段每段选择1个正确的小标题；(2)第27～30题要求从所给的6个选项中选择4个正确选项，分别完成每个句子。 {{B}}The Price of Idleness{{/B}}1．Electrical devices such as CD players, vidoes and burglar alarms are consuming more energy in standby mode than when they are actually being used.2．Maria Sanchez and her colleagues from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, tested more than 50 small electrical applicances, from computers to doorbells, electric mowers, VCRs, and pool pumps. In the current issue of Energy Policy, they report that about half of all consumer electronics energy is used in standby mode. This costs American consumers ＄1 billion a year in wasted energy.3．The researchers say that while electronic devices are lying dormant(休眠状态),running their clocks, maintaining internal memories or displaying their settings, they consume aroud 40 terawatt hours of electricity in the U.S. every year--enough to power a city such as Chicago or London. Many machines use almost as much power on standby as when working. For example, it takes 15 watts to play a typical CD, but an average of 11 watts to keep it on standby. Satellite TV systems use 14 watts when active and 14 watts on standby. Given the long hours these systems spend idling, each uses far more power in standby mode than when actually working.4．"Bad design is largely to blame," says Sanchez. In a separate survey of CD players last year, her colleague Wolfgang Huber found that two machines with similar features used 28 watts and 2 watts respectively on standby. "For most products, we believe that standby power can be reduced to one watt or less," says Sanchez.5．She backs proposals to set up a national labeling system to promote machines that meet this standard. Such a system could reduce standby power consumption in the U.S. by 50 per cent, says coauthor Alan Meier--more than 20 terawatt hours per year. Last month, electronics company Philips announced the launch of a device that can dramatically reduce the power used in standby mode.

填空题 Little Lady Starts Big War Harriet Beecher Stowe had poured her heart into her anti-slavery (反对奴隶制度) book Uncle Tom's Cabin. {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}The publisher was so doubtful that he wanted her to split the publishing costs with him, and all she hoped was that it would make enough money for her to buy a new silk dress. But when the first 5,000 copies were printed in 1852, they sold out in two days. In a year the book had sold 300,000 copies in the United States and 150,000 in England. {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}Within six months of its release, a play was made from the book which ran 350 performances in New York and remained America's most popular play for 80 years. It might appear that Uncle Tom's Cabins was universally popular, but this was certainly not true. Many people during those pre-Civil War days—particularly the defenders of the slavery system—condemned it as false propaganda (宣传) and poorly written melodrama (传奇剧作品). Harriet did have strong religious views against slavery (When asked how she came to write the book, she replied: "God wrote it."), and she tried to convince people slavery was wrong, so perhaps the book could be considered propaganda. {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}} Though she was born in Connecticut in 1832, as a young woman, she moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, when her father accepted the presidency (任期) of newly founded Lane Theological Seminary (神学院). Ohio was a free state, but just across the Ohio River in Kentucky, Harriet saw slavery in action. She lived 18 years in Cincinnati, marrying Calvin Stowe, professor of a college. {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}} {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}Today some historians (历史学家) think that it helped bring on the American Civil War. In fact, when Abraham Lincoln met Harriet at the White House during the Civil War, he said, "So, this is the little lady who started this big war." A．She had read a lot about the slavery system. B．Its vast influence strengthened the anti-slavery movement and angered defenders of the slave system. C．But if so, it was true propaganda, because it accurately described the evils of slavery. D．For a while, it outsold every book in the world, except the Bible. E．But neither she nor her first publisher thought it would be a big success. F．In 1851, Harriet Beecher Stowe began her book.

填空题 A. milk, meat, vegetables, etc. were delivered B. it has promoted the sales of many kinds of commodities C. foods can be preserved D. most kids like iced soft drinks E. every housewife needs food F. the fridge produced when it is working

填空题A. 10 percent to 25 percent for the proportion of workers who use drugs occasionally on the jobB. determine exactly when simple drug use becomes abuseC. the 1920s until the 1960sD. the 1960s until the 1970sE. signals passing through the nervous system