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Earthquakes can also break up gas or oil pipes. This can cause fires to break out, which can do as much damage as the earthquake itself. Another effect of the earthquakes is tsunamis (海啸). These are huge waves created by earthquakes beneath the sea. They can be many meters high and cause great damage to costal towns and cities. China, Japan, Russia and the USA have the highest occurrence of earthquakes in the world. Knowing about (1) _______Two serious earthquakes in (2)________An earthquake and the (3)__________ fires destroyed both Tokyo and Yokohama in Sept. 1923. In 1556, a very serious earthquake (4) ___________ in China’s Shanxi Province, killing large numbers of people. The (5)_________ to measure an earthquake’s strengthPeople can measure an earthquake’s strength on the Richter scale of one to ten, introduced in 1935 in the USA. If an earthquake (6)________ five or more, it is usually serious. The (7)__________of earthquakesAs the plates, which (8)_______ the earth’s crust, move, they sometimes crash against each other, causing the crust to quake. Some (9)_________of earthquakesIf earthquakes break up gas or oil pipes, (10)_______ will happen, which can do as much damage as the earthquake itself. Tsunamis. 第三部分: 阅读理解 (共15小题; 每小题2分, 满分30分) 请认真阅读下列短文, 从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。 A Get a FREE YEAR! Order NOW and get a FREE YEAR of Parents magazine! That’s 2 full years (24 issues) for the regular 1-year fee—just $12. But HURRY, this offer(提供)won’t last! (U.S. orders only, please.) Every issue(期)of Parents is filled with practical advice from leading doctors and child experts…toys and games that develop reader-tested products and more! 100% of the money back: You must be pleased, or you may cancel(取消)any time during the life of your subscription(订阅)and get all your money back—no questions asked. Parents magazine is published 12 times per year. Savings are based on $12.00 yearly subscription fee. State taxes may apply to your order. E-mail address required to access your account(账号)and member prizes online. We will not share your e-mail address with anyone. Click here: www.parents. com / privacy to view our privacy policy. 56. The purpose of the advertisement is to __________. A. help parents with their daily life B. attract more people to order the magazine C. collect more money for the homeless D. introduce a new product 57. According to the ad, we can learn that __________. A. only $12 is to be paid for 24 issues of the magazine B. readers can get a free offer of the magazine any time of the year C. readers from all over the world can enjoy the free offer D. readers can communicate face to face with child experts on the Internet 58. A reader subscribed Parents three months ago, but now he finds the magazine not satisfying. What can he do? A. He can cancel without getting his money back. B. He can cancel after answering a series of questions. C. He can email them to access his bank account to get prizes instead of money. D. He can cancel and get all his money back without answering any questions. B By 2050 Futurologists(未来学家)predict that life will probably be very different in 2050. TV channels(频道)will have disappeared. Instead, people will choose a program from a “menu” and a computer will send the program directly to the television. Today, we can use the World Wide Web to read newspaper stories and see pictures on a computer thousands of kilometers away. By 2050, music, films, programs, newspapers, and books will come to us by computer. Cars will run on new, clean fuels and they will go very fast. Cars will have computers to control the speed and there won’t be any accidents. Today, many cars have computers that tell drivers exactly where they are. By 2050, the computer will control the car and drive it to your destination. Space planes will take people halfway around the world in 2 hours. Today, the United States Space Shuttle can go into space and land on Earth again. By 2050, space planes will fly all over the world and people will fly from Los Angeles to Tokyo in just 2 hours. Robots will have replaced people in factories. Many factories already use robots. Big computers prefer robots—they don’t ask for pay rises or go on strike, and they work 24 hours a day. By 2050, we will see robots everywhere—in factories, schools, offices, hospitals, shops and homes. Medical technology will have conquered many diseases. Today, there are devices(设备)that connect directly to the brain to help people hear. By 2050, we will be able to help blind and deaf people to see and hear again. Scientist will have discovered how to control genes(基因). Scientists have already produced clones(克隆)of animals. By 2050, scientists will be able to produce clones of people, and decide how they look, how they behave and how clever they are. Scientists will be able to do these things, but should they? 59. According to the passage, the following can be realized today EXCEPT __________. A. reading newspapers on a computer B. making a space shuttle go into space and land on Earth again C. creating cloned animals D. choosing TV programs freely from a “menu” 60. We can learn from the passage that some big companies prefer robots to human workers, because human workers __________. A. can work 24 hours a day B. often ask for more pay C. are not clever enough D. are often late for work 61. From Paragraph 5 we can infer that __________. A. there will be no blind and deaf people by 2050 B. few diseases will attack people by 2050 C. devices are connected directly to the brain to help people hear D. medical technology will be more effective by 2050 62. What is the author’s attitude towards the cloning technology? A. The author does not support the use of cloning technology. B. The author thinks human cloning is impossible. C. The author does not really support the idea of human cloning. D. The author is quite excited about human cloning. C A year ago, August, Dave Fuss lost his job driving a truck for a small company in west Michigan. His wife, Gerrie, was still working in the local school cafeteria, but it was hard for Dave to find work, and the price of everything was rising. The Fusses were at risk of joining the millions of Americans who have lost their homes in recent years. Then Dave and Gerrie received a timely gift—$7,000, a legacy(遗产) from their neighbors Ish and Arlene Hatch, who died in an accident. “It really made a difference when we were meeting difficulty .”says Dave. But the Fusses weren’t the only folks in Alto and the neighboring town of Lowell to receive unexpected legacy from the Hatches. Dozens of other families were touched by what the Hatches had done. In some cases, it was a few thousand dollars; in others, it was more than $100,000. It surprised nearly everyone that the Hatches had so much money, more than $3 million—they were an elderly couple who lived in an old house on what was left of the family farm. Children of the Great Depression, Ish and Arlene were known for their habit of saving. They preferred comparison shopping and would go from store to store, checking prices before making a new purchase. Through the years, the Hatches paid for local children to attend summer camps when their parents couldn’t afford it. “Ish and Arlene never asked if you needed anything,” says their friend Sandy Van Weelden, “They could see things they could do to make you happier, and they would do them.” Even more extraordinary was that the Hatches gave away their farmland. It was the Hatches’ wish that their legacy—a legacy of kindness as much as one of dollars and cents—should enrich the whole community and last for generations to come. Neighbors helping neighbors—that was Ish and Arlene Hatch’s story. 63. According to the text, the Fusses __________. A. were employed by a truck company B. led a difficult life C. worked in a school cafeteria D. lost their home 64. What can we learn about the Hatches? A. They had their children during the Great Depression. B. They left the old house to live on their family farm. C. They gave away their possessions(财产)to their neighbors. D. They helped their neighbors to find jobs. 65. Why would the Hatches go from store to store? A. They decided to open a store. B. They wanted to save money. C. They couldn’t afford expensive things. D. They wanted to buy gifts for local kids. 66. What Sandy Van Weelden said mainly tells us that the Hatches were __________. A. understanding B. kindC. childlike D. wealthy D All the wisdom of the ages and all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries are easily and cheaply available to all of us within the covers of books, but we must know how to get the most from this treasure. The most unfortunate people in the world are those who have never discovered how satisfying it is to read good books. I am most interested in people and in finding out about them. Some of the most outstanding people I’ve met existed only in a writer’s imagination, then on the pages of his books, and then, again, in my imagination. I’ve found in books new friends, new society, and new world. Reading is the pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness make you a good reader. Reading is fun, not because the writer is telling you something, but because it makes your mind work. Your own imagination works along with the author’s or even goes beyond his. Your experience, compared with his, brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his. Every book stands by itself, like a one-family house, but books in a library are like houses in a city. Although they are separate, together they all add up to something. They are connected with each other and with other cities. The same ideas, or related ones, turn up in different places; the human problems that repeat themselves in life repeat themselves in literature, but with different solutions according to different writings at different times. Books influence each other; they link the past, the present and future and have their own generations, like families. Wherever you start reading, you connect yourself with one of the families of ideas, and in the long run, you not only find out about the world and the people in it; you find out about yourself, too. Reading can only be fun if you expect it to be. If you concentrate on books somebody tells you “you ought to” read, you probably won’t have fun. But if you put down a book you don’t like and try another till you find one that means something to you, and then relax with it, you will almost certainly have a good time—and if you become, as a result of reading, better, wiser, or kinder, you won’t have suffered during the process. 67. What kind of people are the most unfortunate in the writer’s eyes? A. Those who only know how to get the most from his books. B. Those who exist only in a writer’s imagination. C. Those who don’t know the delight reading brings them. D. Those who differ from the writer in conclusions. 68. The writer thinks reading is fun, because reading __________. A. can make us a good reader B. makes our mind work C. can save our timeD. makes us relaxed 69. The underlines phrase “turn up” in Paragraph 4 means “__________”. A. have great fun B. find C. face another way D. appear 70. What would be the best title for the text? A. The Pleasure of Reading B. The Ways of Reading C. The Imagination of Reading D. The Results of Reading (责任编辑：admin) |