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A．output
B．surplus
C．production
D．plenty
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Task 1
Directions: After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements, numbered 36 through 40. For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A, B, C, and D. You should make the correct choice.
Some animals are pets, some are wild, and many of them provide us with food. All have a different and important role in our lives.
It is easy to forget that the steak at the supermarket once formed part of a steer(肉用小公牛). But without domestic(驯养的) animals such as chickens and cattle, we would all be vegetarians, or a great deal of our time would need to be spent on hunting for meat.
Wild animals not only attract sport hunters. For some people they are even an important source of food. When urban people visit the wild, deer, bears and other wild animals remind them of an older way of life,
Pets, however, are the animals that are especially significant for most of us. They are undemanding companions. They share our sadness or endure our bad tempers without complaints or caring about what they will get from the owners. A pet can be a great comfort when life seems hard.
For children, pets can be both fun and instructive. If a child cares for a pet, he or she learns to take responsibility for another being. Watching kittens or puppies being born can be a natural form. of sex education. For children, as for adults, pets are loving companions and a help in tough times.
As I recall, an Indian chief once said, "Without our brothers, the animals, we would all be very lonely." I believe that he is right.
Pets are important in our lives because they ______.
A．provide us with food
B．are domestic animals
C．can be our good friends
D．can be very attractive
I shrugged off the apparition. Birds come and go. Usually they're pigeons, not chickens, but like other birds, this one had wings and it would probably use them. Or so I thought.
The protagonist of this story is known simply as the chicken. How it came to a small backyard here, remains a matter of conjecture. The chicken made its first appearance next door, at the home of a multitude of cabdrivers from Bangladesh. My wife, Nancy, and I figured they had bought the chicken and were fattening it for a feast. That hypothesis fell into doubt when the chicken hopped the fence and began pacing the perimeter of our yard with a proprietary air.
Eating it was out of the question. As a restaurant critic and an animal lover, I subscribe to a policy of complete hypocrisy. Serve fish or fowl to me, but don't ask me to watch the killing. Once I meet it, I don't want to eat it.
Nancy and I next theorized that the chicken had escaped from a live-poultry market about four blocks away and was on the run. Our hearts went out to the brave little refugee. We had to save it.
A、hazy blue Virginia
B、blue hazy Virginia
C、Virginia blue hazy
D、Virginia hazy blue
A、threaten the chickens
B、encourage the chickens
C、remind the chickens to stay calm and keep sober-minded
D、persuade the chickens to keep escaping
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It is Dredicted that there will be four scientific breakthroughs in the 21 st centruy． We wiuknow where we came from．Since the l920s，scientists have known the universe is expanding，which means it must have started at a definite time in the past．They even have de-veloped theories that give a detailed picture of the universe from the time it was a fraction of a second old to the present．Over the next couple of decades，these theories will be improved by data from powerful new telescopes． We will find out the genetic code and conquer cancer．In l9th century operas，when the heroine coughs in the first act，the audience knows"she will die of tuberculosis in the third act．
But thanks to 20th century science，the once deadly disease now means nothing more serious than taking some pills．As scientists learn more about the genetic code and the way cells work，many serious desease——cancer．will become less threatening． We will live longer，probably up to 1 20 years．If the normal aging process is basically a fierce．invisible contest in our ceus——a contest between damage to our DNA and our ceils’abili-ty to repair that damage，gre{at progress around．But before we push scientists to do more，we should consider：do we really want to live in a world where no one grows old？We will haye a hrain road map．This is the real final frontier of the 21 st century．The brain is the most complex system we know．It contains about l00 billion nerve cells，each con-nected to as many as l000 0thers．Early in the 21 st century，progress in science will make it Dossible to produce detailed images of the nerve cells in operation．We will be able to say with certainty which ones are working when you read or think about a word．
Jadging from the second paragraph，the writer thinks of present theories about the uinverse as __________．
A.perfect
B.imperfect
C.groundless
D.complicated
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.
听力原文： People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the animal welfare group, begins a global boycott of KFC to seek an improvement in the lives and deaths of 700 million chickens who become the chain's fried meals every year. The group plans to start a campaign pressing the chain to change how chickens are raised in large farms in the United States and around the world. Among the suggestions are to improve the diets of hens and to gas chickens to sleep before they are slaughtered.
This is not the group's first campaign to improve chickens' lives--it has won concessions from McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's. But it is the group's first effort to focus on restaurants world wide.
With fat people trying to sue fast-food restaurants for helping to cause their obesity, the group hopes to tap into the growing public criticism of a fast-food diet as well as the concern over farm animal welfare. Instead of following the slow path of pushing for changes in regulations, the group wants restaurants to enforce immediate changes by telling farmers they will not buy chickens raised and killed under current conditions.
"If people knew what happened to those chickens, raising them in their own filth arid then dumping them on an assembly line to have their throats cut when they're still alive, they wouldn't go to Kentucky Fried Chicken," a spokesman for the group, Bruce Friedrich, said.
Officials of the KFC Corporation declined a request for an interview and would not respond to the accusations from the group. Instead they issued a statement. "KFC is committed to the well being and humane treatment of chickens and we require all of our suppliers to follow welfare guidelines developed by us with leading experts on our Animal Welfare Advisory Council," the statement said. "Our suppliers ensure strict compliance with our guidelines."
Ian Duncan, a member of the advisory council and chairman of animal welfare in the department of animal and poultry sciences at the University of Guelph in Canada, said the animal welfare group may have a point. "I've been doing research into chicken welfare since 1965 and change has been slow, very slow," Mr. Duncan said in a telephone interview. "PETA is very extreme and they exaggerate, but maybe that's what it takes," he said. "I used to be very much against them, but I can see they are getting things done."
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A．500 million
B．600 million
C．700 million
D．800 million
Woman: Did you say that we can get more than half of the votes？
Man: Yes. Most students will be on our side.
Woman: But mind you. We cannot count the chickens before they are hatched.
Question: What does the woman imply？
A．Things may not turn out what they expected.
B．It's still too early to believe the students.
C．The man is over-confident about the students.
D．Over half of the votes will go to the man.
There was once a man in South America who had a parrot(鹦鹉), a pet bird that could imitate(模拟) human speech. The parrot was unique. There was no other bird like him in the whole world. He could learn to say any word except one. He could not say the name of his native town, Cotano. The man did everything he could to teach the parrot to say “Cotano” but he never succeeded. At first he was very gentle with the bird, but gradually he lost his temper. “You stupid bird! Why can't you learn to say that One word! Say 'Cotano' or I'll kill you!” But the parrot would not say it. Many times the man screamed(大声叫), “Say 'Cotano' or I'll kill you!” But the bird would never repeat the name. Finally the man gave up. He picked up the parrot and threw him into the chicken house. “You are even more stupid than the chickens!”
In the chicken house, there were four old chickens waiting to be killed for Sunday's dinner. The next morning, when he went out to the chicken house, the man opened the door. He was shocked by what he saw. He could not believe his eyes and ears. On the floor lay three dead chickens, the parrot was screaming at the fourth, “Say 'Cotano' or I'll kill you!”
1)、The reason why the parrot couldn't say the name of his native town is not mentioned in the story.
A.T
B.F
2)、The man lost his temper at the fact that the bird failed to say the name of the town.
A.T
B.F
3)、The man in the kitchen killed the three chickens.
A.T
B.F
4)、The bird managed to escape from the chicken house.
A.T
B.F
5)、The man loved his parrot very much and always treated it kindly.
A.T
B.F
W: Sounds like fun. Fifty Years？ Wow!
M: It sounds like fun to me, too.
W: What kind of farm does he have？
M: I've never been there, but he has chickens and cows and all. That means fresh eggs and fresh milk.
W: Does he have a family？
M: No, he doesn't. He never married. He's not as lucky as I am to have a family and grandchildren. I'm a lucky man.
W: How come he never got married？
M: That's a good question. He never married because the girl he was in love with in college married someone else, and he never got over it.
W: He must have loved her very much.
M: Yes, very much. Lillian. She was in our class.
W: And what happened？
M: She was in love with Donald, who captained the football team.
W: Football players are always popular with the ladies.
M: She liked Bob, but her heart was with Donald.
W: Where is she today？
M: I don't know. Maybe Lillian will be at the reunion.
W: You think so？
M: Bob's full of surprises.
W: I wish I could go there with you. What do you think the surprise will be？
M: With Bob, you never know, Robbin.
W: Won't it be exciting to see all your college friends there again？
M: It is already. I'm kind of excited about going now. Next weekend...sleep over Friday and Saturday night and come back Sunday. I can't wait!
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A．Bob is the man's college friend.
B．Bob is a farm owner.
C．Bob can never get over his love for a girl.
D．Bob was once the captain of the football team.
Once we are in charge of love, it can be with us for the rest of our lives.()
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