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23. Tigers of this kind are _____ hunting because hunters are ______ their skin. As a result, they will be ______ soon. A. dying from, dying of, dying off B. dying of, dying from, dying out C. dying from, dying for, dying out D. dying of, dying for, dying off 24. ----What do you think of this film? ----Very bad. __________. A. Nothing could be worse. B. Nothing could be better. C. I like it a little. D. You just couldn’t find a better one. 25. ----Jack hasn’t got a job yet, has he? ---- Oh yes, in fact, he has been ________ for two weeks. A. after work B. in work C. at work D. out of work 26. The teacher told me that the earth _______ round. A. was B. is C. were D. are turning 27. Look, the little girl is dancing as if she ______ a little bird. A. is B. were C. has been D. had been 28. The professor _______ to walk out of the office when one of his students came in. A. was about to B. was going to C. would D. was to 29. Sometimes children are _______ enough to create ______ stories. A. imaginative, imaginary B. imaginary, imaginative C. imaginable, imaginary D. imaginative, imaginable 30. In December 2008, Obama was _________________. A. elected the President of the USA B. selected the President of the USA C. elected President of the USA D. selected President of the USA 第二节 完形填空：(共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分) Having written a book on rock music and a book on jazz music, and now writing a book __31__ the classical music of the 20th century, I felt the __32__ to put somewhere the music that does not quite fit __33__ of these kinds of music. I also felt that I needed to research the beginning of the popular music in Western Europe and the USA in order to __34__ understand the change of the jazz and rock music. I also felt that ethnic music has become so __35__ that one should research the development from Western European and USA music. This book aims at __36__ all these gaps (差异). I did my best to give it a systematic feeling, although it is clear that musicians from such different parts of the world had very __37__ in common. Only after the joining together of the 1907s can we __38__ of a worldwide history of popular music. This book is about the __39__ of that formation (形成). It was not very difficult to decide how to __40__ jazz music from pop music. It was much more __41__ to decide how to separate rock music __42__ the rest of popular music, because rock music has taken in just about everything. Pieces of this book were firstly written for my 2003 books on rock music. __43__ that happened after the 1960s will be in the book on rock music. The __44__ is that you should read this book first, then the __45__ of jazz music and the history of rock music. 31. A. in B. on C. to D. for 32. A. need B. change C. music D. book 33. A. neither B. both C. either D. all 34. A. good B. well C. worse D. better 35. A. good B. bad C. popular D. nice 36. A. filling B. breaking C. forming D. making 37. A. few B. little C. large D. much 38. A. talk B. find C. tell D. say 39. A. reason B. middle C. ending D. beginning 40. A. separate B. divide C. cut D. take 41. A. difficult B. wonderful C. important D. necessary 42. A. between B. from C. to D. into 43. A. Thing B. Nothing C. Anything D. Something 44. A. situation B. question C. problem D. idea 45. A. story B. history C. beginning D. difference III. 阅读:(共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分) 阅读下面短文，然后从每题中所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。 (A) Searching for life on other planets For more than thirty years scientists have been searching for signs of life on other planets. Most of these searches have been done over the radio. The hope is that someone in outer space may be trying to get in touch with us. Scientists also have sent radio and television messages, as well as messages on spaceships traveling through space, on the chance that someone may receive such messages. Scientists are using powerful radio telescopes to “listen” to signals from about 1,000 stars, all within 100 light years of Earth. In addition, they will scan the entire sky to listen for radio messages from more distant stars. Using a computer, they will be able to monitor more than eight million channels at a time. Scientists are looking for any signal that stands out from the background noise. Of the 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, scientists find that five percent are like our sun. Perhaps half of them have a planet like Earth. Such a planet would be a reasonable distance from the star for temperatures to be right for life. Based on the planets in our galaxy, most scientists agree that one or more of these planets may support some life. However, many scientists wonder whether intelligent life exists on other planets. Some believe that thirty years of searching without any intelligible messages shows that no one is out there. They say that intelligence comparable to ours is unlikely. Other scientists believe that our search hasn’t been long enough to rule out the possibility that intelligent life exists in our galaxy. Although our sun family is only about five billion years old, our galaxy is about 20 billion years old. In that time some scientists think it is likely that civilizations much more advanced than ours have developed. Perhaps these civilizations send us no signals; perhaps we have not recognized the signals they have sent us. If we hope to find intelligent life, these scientists believe that we have to keep looking. (责任编辑：admin) |