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填空题Adult Education 1. Voluntary learning in organized courses by mature men and women is called adult education. Such education is offered to make people able to enlarge and interpret their experience as adults. Adults may want to study something*which they missed in earlier schooling, get new skills or job training, find out about new technological developments, seek better self-understanding ,or develop new talents and skills. 2. This kind of education may be in the form of self-study with proper guidance through the use of libraries, correspondence courses, or broadcasting. It may also be acquired collectively in schools and colleges, study groups, workshops, clubs, and professional associations. 3. Modern adult education for large numbers of people started in the 18th and 19th centuries with the rise of the Industrial Revolution. Great economic and social changes were taking place: people were moving from rural areas to cities, new types of work were being created in an expanding factory system. These and other factors produced a need for further education and re-education of adults. 4. The earliest programs of organized adult education arose in Great Britain in the 1790s, with the founding of an adult school in Nottingham and a mechanics’ institute in Glasgow. The earliest adult education institution in the United States was founded by Benjamin Franklin and some friends in Philadelphia in 1727. 5. People recognize that continued learning is necessary for most forms of employment today. For example, parts of the adult population in many countries find it necessary to take part in retraining programs at work or even to learn completely new jobs. Adult education programs are springing up constantly to meet these and other needs.

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1～4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。 Cell Phones 1．Believe it or not，cell phones have been around for over a quarter of a century．The first commercial cell phone system was developed by the Japanese in 1979，but cell phones have changed a lot since that time．The early cell phones were big and heavy but they have developed into small and light palm sized models．There have been huge developments in their functions，too：we have had call forwarding，text messaging，answering services and hands-free use for years，but now there are countless new facilities，such as instant access to the Internet and receiving and sending photos． 2．Cell phones have become very common in our lives：recent statistics suggest as many as one in three people on the planet now have a cell phone，and most of them say they couldn't live without one． Cell phones are used in every area of our lives and have become a necessary tool，used for essential arrangements，social contact and business．They have made it easier to call for help on the highway．They have made it possible to keep in touch with people“on the move”-when people are traveling． 3．Cell phones have made communication easier and have reduced the need for family arguments!We can use cell phones to let our family know we'll be late or if there's a sudden change of plan or an emergency．Cell phones have eased the worries of millions of parents when their teenagers are out late：they can now contact their children at any time． 4．This does not mean that cell phones are all good news．They have brought with them a number of new headaches for their owners：it costs a lot to replace stolen phones，something that is becoming a frequent occurrence，and have you ever seen such huge phone bills?More serious，however，is the potential health problem they bring：there are fears that radiation from the phones may cause brain tumor(肿瘤)． This may be a time bomb waiting to happen to younger people who have grown up with cell phones that they simply can't live without! A．Cell phones and the family B．Commercial cell phone systems C．Cell phones in everyday life D．Cell phones for teenagers E．History of cell phones F．Problems with cell phones

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. {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}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. {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}} 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. {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}} Inequalities have grown worse in different regions. In California, incomes for lower class families have fallen by 4 percent since 1969. {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/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}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/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 U.S.. 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 Icy Microbes 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 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 searchers 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. A．Significance of Testing Techniques for Sampling Microbes in the Deep Ice Sheet B．Special Features of Lake Vida C．Later Expedition on Mars D．2004 Revisit Planned for Collecting Lake Water Specimens E．Antarctic Frozen Life Sampled and Revived F．Accidental Discovery of Ice-sealed Lake Water in Antarctica

填空题Nicola Walters had time for the experiments ______.

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个选项中为规定段每段选择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。 Before you can use a fax modem, you must specify it as active. Also, only one fax modem can be used at a time. If you have more than one available, you need to specify which one you want to be active. Make sure that Mail is closed and the Outbox is empty before you specify the active modem.2. If you plan to use a fax modem located on another computer on your network, you need to specify the name of the computer and the name of the shared directory. You may also need to supply a password for the shared directory. Your workgroup administrator or the person whose fax .modem it is can give you this information.3. When you share a fax modem, anyone using the network can connect to it to send faxes. Because of this, you might receive faxes for Other people in addition to faxes intended for you. You need to forward faxes intended for others.4. You can send a fax from Mail or from an application. When you send a fax from Mail, your fax can include other documents that you attach. When you send a fax from an application, the current document becomes the fax message. You can send the same message to both' Mail and PC Fax recipients at the same time by using a combination of mail and fax addresses. If you send many faxes to the same recipients, you can avoid having to type the fax number each time by adding fax numbers to your Personal Address Book in Mail.5. You can use the Personal Address Book in Mail to store commonly used fax numbers in addition to commonly used mail addresses. You do not need to include the recipient's name when you type a fax address. However, if you have selected the option in Mail to add recipients automatically to the Personal Address Book, and you use a name in the fax address, the address is added by name rather than by fax number.6. You can receive a fax directly via a fax modem on your computer, or another person who has a fax modem on their computer can use Mail to forward a fax to you. In either case, incoming faxes appear exactly like incoming mail messages in your Mail Inbox. You can view a fax on your screen, print it, save it on your hard disk, reply to it, or forward it.

填空题A. will influence future climate changeB. was somewhat surprisingC. will rise rapidlyD. was known to us allE. was much higher than had been expectedF. will drop dramatically

填空题I"ll Be Bach 1 Composer David Cope is the inventor of a computer program that writes original works of classical music. It took Cope 30 years to develop the software. Now most people can"t tell the difference between music by the famous German composer J. S. Bach (1685—1750) and the Bach-like compositions from Cope"s computer. 2 It all started in 1980 in the United States, when Cope was trying to write an opera. He was having trouble thinking of new melodies, so he wrote a computer program to create the melodies. At first this music was not easy to listen to. What did Cope do? He began to rethink how human beings compose music. He realized that composers" brains work like big databases. First, they take in all the music that they have ever heard. Then they take out the music that they dislike. Finally, they make new music from what is left. According to Cope, only the great composers are able to create the database accurately, remember it, and form new musical patterns from it. 3 Cope built a huge database of existing music. He began with hundreds of works by Bach. The software analyzed the data: it broke it down into smaller pieces and looked for patterns. It then combined the pieces into new patterns. Before long, the program could compose short Bach-like works. They weren"t good, but it was a start. 4 Cope knew he had more work to do—he had a whole opera to write. He continued to improve the software. Soon it could analyze more complex music. He also added many other composers, including his own work, to the database. 5 A few years later, Cope"s computer program, called "Emmy", was ready to help him with his opera. The process required a lot of collaboration between the composer and Emmy. Cope listened to the computer"s musical ideas and used the ones that he liked. With Emmy, the opera took only two weeks to finish. It was called Cradle Falling , and it was a great success ! Cope received some of the best reviews of his career, but no one knew exactly how he had composed the work. 6 Since that first opera, Emmy has written thousands of compositions. Cope still gives Emmy feedback on what he likes and doesn"t like of her music, but she is doing most of the hard work of composing these days!

填空题Development in Newspaper Organization One of the most important developments in newspaper organization during the first part of the twentieth century 1 , which are known as wire services. Wire-service companies employed reporters, who covered stories all over the world. Their news reports were sent to papers throughout the country by telegraph. The papers paid an annual fee for this service. Wire services continue 2 . Today the major wire services are the Associated Press (AP) and United Press International (PUI). You will frequently find AP or UPI at the beginning of a news story. Newspaper chains and mergers began to appear in the early 1900s. A chain consists of two or more newspapers 3 . A merger involves combining two or more papers into one. During the nineteenth century many cities had more than one competitive independent paper. Today in most cities there are only one or two newspapers, and 4 . Often newspapers in several cities belong to one chain. Papers have combined 5 . Chains and mergers have cut down production costs and brought the advantages of big-business methods to the newspaper industry. A. to play an important role in newspaper operations B. was the growth of telegraph services C. and they usually enjoy great prestige D. they are usually operated by a single owner E. in order to survive under the pressure of rising costs F. owned by a single person or organization

填空题 Is There a Way to Keep the Britain's Economy Growing In today's knowledge economy, nations survive on the things they do best. Japanese design electronics while Germans export engineering techniques. The French serve, the best food and Americans make computers. Britain specializes in the gift of talking. The nation doesn't manufacture much of anything. But it has lawyers, stylists and business consultants who earn their living from talk and more talk. The World Foundation think tank says the UK's four iconic jobs today are not scientists, engineers, teachers and nurses. Instead, they're hairdressers, celebrities, management consultants and managers. But can all this talking keep the British economy going? The British government thinks it can. Although the country's trade deficit was more than ￡60 billion in 2006, UK's largest in the postwar period, officials say the country has nothing to worry about. In fact, Britain does have a world class pharmaceutical industry? And it still makes a small sum from selling arms abroad. It also trades services-accountancy, insurance, banking and advertising. The government believes Britain is on the cutting edge of the knowledge economy. After all, me country of Shakespeare and Wordsworth has a literary tradition of which to be proud. Rock 'n' roll is an English language medium, and there are billions to be made by their cutting-edge bands. In other words, the creative economy has plenty of strength to carry the British economy. However, creative industries account for only about 4 percent of UK's exports of goods and services. The industries are finding it hard to make a profit, according to a report of the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts The report shows only 38 percent of British companies were engaged in "innovation activities", 3 percentage points below the EU average and well below Germany (61 percent) and Sweden (47 percent). In fact, it might be better to call Britain a "servant" economy—there are at least 4 million people "in service". The majority of the population are employed by the rich to cook, clean, and take care of their children. Many graduates are even doing menial jobs for which they do not need a degree. Most employment growth has been, and will continue to be, at the low-skill end of the service sector—in shops, bars, hotels, domestic service and in nursing and care homes. A．Growth of Economy B．"Servant" Economy C．Strength of the Creative Economy D．Weakness of the Creative Economy E．Gift of talking F．Export of Talking Machines

填空题Development in Newspaper Organization One of the most important developments in newspaper organization during the first part of the twentieth century 1 , which are known as wire services. Wire-service companies employed reporters, who covered stories all over the world. Their news reports were sent to papers throughout the country by telegraph. The papers paid an annual fee for this service. Wire services continue 2 . Today the major wire services are the Associated Press (AP) and United Press International (PUI). You will frequently find AP or UPI at the beginning of a news story. Newspaper chains and mergers began to appear in the early 1900s. A chain consists of two or more newspapers 3 . A merger involves combining two or more papers into one. During the nineteenth century many cities had more than one competitive independent paper. Today in most cities there are only one or two newspapers, and 4 . Often newspapers in several cities belong to one chain. Papers have combined 5 . Chains and mergers have cut down production costs and brought the advantages of big-business methods to the newspaper industry. A. to play an important role in newspaper operations B. was the growth of telegraph services C. and they usually enjoy great prestige D. they are usually operated by a single owner E. in order to survive under the pressure of rising costs F. owned by a single person or organization

填空题 A. China failed to develop a single written language based on phonetics B. a Chinese child is supposed to learn much more words than his English speaking counterpart C. Chinese dialects differ from each other to a great extent D. the Chinese language system has no relation to sound E. educate more people to learn the same language F. there is only a small part of the population who understand the large number of symbols

填空题A its detecting power B millions of light years away in space C the location of the VLT D as an example E the birth of the earth F the rotation of the earth

填空题False Fear of Big Fish Many people believe sharks are dangerous and will always try to hurt or even kill humans. (46) . A shark exhibition at the National Aquarium (水族馆) in Baltimore, U.S., proves this. Visitors can touch young sharks see their eggs develop and watch a dozen different species swim smoothly around a huge tank. Most people fail to realize that shark attacks don't happen very often. Humans are mote likely to be killed by lightning than by a shark. (47) . There, kids Call learn, from an early age, not to fear sharks. "People fear what they don't know," said Nancy Hotchkiss an organizer of the exhibition. "Sharks have been around for 400 million years and play an important role in the ocean's food chain. We want people to discover that sharks are amazing animals that need our respect and protection." (48) . A study, published in January in the US magazine, Science, found that almost all recorded shark species have fallen by half in the past eight to 15 years. Thousands of sharks are hunted in Asia for special foods, such as shark fin soup. And many others get caught in nets, while fishermen are hunting other fish. (49) . "Some fishing methods are actually cleaning out the ocean for sharks," said Dave Schofield, the manager of the aquarium's ocean health program me. (50) .A. They call watch them develop inside their eggs and feel the skin of the older swimmers.B. A shocking 100 million sharks are killed every year around the world by humans.C. In fact, 94 per cent of the world's 400 species are harmless to humans.D. It is a worrying situation and some areas have put measures in place to protect these special fish.E. And to make this point clear, the museum has set up a special touching pool for children.F. More than half of the sharks caught are smaller than 1 meter lon

填空题阅读下面的短文，文章中有5处空白，文章后面有6组文字，请根据文章的内容选择5组文字，将其分别放回文章原有位置，以恢复文章原貌。 {{B}}Mobile Phones{{/B}} Mobile phones should carry a label if they proved to be a dangerous source of radiation, according to Robert Bell, a scientist. And no more mobile phone transmitter towers should be built until the long-term health effects of the electromagnetic radiation they emit are scientifically evaluated, he said. "Nobody's going to drop dead overnight but we should be asking for more scientific information," Robert Bell said at a conference on the health effects of low-level radiation.{{U}} (46) {{/U}}. A report widely circulated among the public says that up to now scientists do not really know enough to guarantee there are no ill-effects on humans from electromagnetic radiation. According to Robert Bell, there axe 3.3 million mobile phones in Australia alone and they are increasing by 2,000 a day.{{U}} (47) {{/U}}. As well, there are 2,000 transmitter towers around Australia, many in high density residential areas.{{U}} (48) {{/U}}The electromagnetic radiation emitted from these towers may have already produced some harmful effects on the health of the residents nearby. Robert Bell suggests that until more research is completed the Government should ban construction of phone towers from within a 500 metre radius of school grounds, child cam centres, hospitals, sports playing fields and residential areas with a high percentage of children.{{U}} (49) {{/U}}. He adds that there is also evidence that if cancer sufferers ale subjected to electromagnetic waves the growth rate of the disease accelerates. {{U}} (50) {{/U}}. According to Robert Bell, it is reasonable for the major telephone companies to fund it. Besides, he also urges the Government to set up a wide-ranging inquiry into possible health effects.A He says there is emerging evidence that children absorb low-level radiation at a rate more than three times that of adults.B By the year 2000 it is estimated that Australia will have 8 million mobile phones: nearly one for every two people.C "If mobile phones are found to be dangerous, they should carry a warning label until proper shields can be devised," he said.D Then who finances the research?E For example, Telstra, Optus and Vodaphone build their towers where it is geographically suitable to them and disregard the need of the community.F The conclusion is that mobile phones brings more harm than benefit.

填空题By the fourth week of July conditions in the tropics lay balanced between life and total death. Then quite suddenly rain clouds appeared over the whole globe. The temperature declined a little, due no doubt to the clouds reflecting more of the Sun's radiation back into space. ______ Warm rain fell everywhere, even as far north as Iceland. The insect population increased enormously, since the burning hot atmosphere was as favorable to them as it was unfavorable to Man many other animals.A. All human movement ceased.B. More than seven hundred million persons are known to have lost their lives.C. A mysterious "black cloud" approaches the earth-our planet's weather is severely affected.D. Occasionally air-conditioning units failed and it was then that fatalities occurred.E. There was nothing to be done but to lie breathing quickly as a dog does in hot weather.F. But conditions could not be said to have improve

填空题A. the iceboxB. the iceC. scientific answersD. the experimentE. the worldF. water

填空题阅读下面的短文，文章中有5处空白，文章后面有6组文字，请根据文章的内容选择5组文字，将其分别放回文章原有位置，以恢复文章原貌。 Economic Growth The economy of a nation requires{{U}} (46) {{/U}}. Total output must grow if the country is to absorb about 1.5 million new workers who enter the labor force each year and more workers who are replaced each year as a form of technological change. If the nation produced the same level of output each year,instead of increasing it,people would have fewer jobs,growing unemployment,and a decline in the per-capita(人均的)income of the nation. To maintain or increase the existing standard of living and to prevent unemployment from rising,{{U}} (47) {{/U}}. Higher rates of employment and substantial per-capita output gains seem to occur when the real economic growth rate is over 3%, as it was in the years 1983 through 1988. Recent experience shows that, with a real growth rate of less than 2.5%,the U.S. economy suffers from{{U}} (48) {{/U}}. For example ,unemployment at the end of 1990 was 5.4% of the labor force. But by the end of 1991,unemployment was more than 6.6% of the labor force. Why did this happen? Simply because the real output of goods and services declined in 1991. New members into the labor force could not be absorbed,so{{U}} (49) {{/U}}. Furthermore,a large number of workers withdrew from the labor force altogether because{{U}} (50) {{/U}}. Instead of rising in 1991 ,the real GDP actually fell 0.7%. Real GDP rose again in 1992 by 2.6%,but unemployment also rose to 7.3% of the labor force. GDP continued to rise during 1993,gained a 3%. At the same time unemployment stood at 6.8% of the labor force. Per-capita in-come also grew again during 1993. A．unemployment rose B．they were unable to find work C．a healthy rate of economic growth D．out of work E．they must increase real gross domestic product (GDP) continuously F．higher unemployment and limited gains in per-capita output and income

填空题阅读下面的短文，文章中有5处空白，文章后面有6组文字，请根据文章的内容选择5组文字，将其分别放回文章原有位置，以恢复文章原貌。 {{B}} Why Would They Falsely Confess?{{/B}} Why on earth would an innocent person falsely confess to committing a crime? To most people, it just doesn't seem logical. But it is logical, say experts, if you understand what can happen in a police interrogation (审讯) room. Under the right conditions, people's minds are susceptible (易受影响的) to influence, and the pressure put on suspects during police questioning is enormous; {{U}}(46) {{/U}} "The pressure is important to understand, because otherwise it's impossible to understand why someone would say he did something he didn't do. The answer is: to put an end to an uncomfortable situation that will continue until he does confess." Developmental psychologist Mary Redlich recently conducted a laboratory study to determine how likely people are to confess to things they didn't do. {{U}}(47) {{/U}} The researchers then intentionally crashed the computers and accused the participants of hitting the "alt" key to see if they would sign a statement falsely taking responsibility. Redlich's findings clearly demonstrate how easy it can be to get people to falsely confess: 59 percent of the young adults in the experiment immediately confessed. {{U}}(48) {{/U}} Of the 15- to 16-year-olds, 72 percent signed confessions, as did 78 percent of the 12- to 13-year-olds. "There's no question that young people are more at risk," says Saul Kassin, a psychology professor at Williams College, who has done similar studies with similar results. {{U}}(49) {{/U}} Both Kassin and Redlich note that the entire "interrogation" in their experiments consisted of a simple accusation-not hours of aggressive questioning-and still, most participants falsely confessed. {{U}} (50) {{/U}}"In some ways," says Kassin, "false confession becomes a rational decision."A In her experiment, participants were seated at computers and told not to hit the "alt" key, because doing so would crash the systems.B Because of the stress of a police interrogation, they conclude, suspects can become convinced that falsely confessing is the easiest way out of a bad situation.C "It's a little like somebody's working on them with a dental (牙齿的) drill," says Franklin Zimring, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley.D "But the baseline is that adults are highly vulnerable too."E The court found him innocent and he was released.F Redlich also found that the younger the participant, the more likely a false confession.