听力原文： For centuries, parrots have been prized pets becau..

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听力原文：Although the practice of the old Roman religion disappeared many centuries ago, s

听力原文： Although the practice of the old Roman religion disappeared many centuries ago, some traces of the Roman gods are still present in our daily vocabulary. The names of the Roman sun god, Sol, and the moon goddess, Luna, are used frequently in our language.

The word solar describes anything pertaining to the sun, and lunar anything pertaining to the moon. For example, the sun and the planets circling it are called the solar system. The period of time in which the earth circles the sun once is a solar year. The moon takes one lunar month to circle the earth. A lunar year of twelve lunar months is eleven days shorter than a solar year.

In some cases our language shows how these heavenly bodies affect us directly. A room or place for sunbathing is often called a solarium. We get our word parasol from the Italian word meaning "a guard against the sun". For many centuries it was believed that the moon affected people who were mentally ill. For this reason people who were mentally ill were often referred to as lunatics.

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A．Planets.

B．The moon.

C．The sun.

D．Gods.

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听力原文：The decentralization, diversity, academic freedom and shared governance that have

evolved over the past two centuries have made America's system of higher education one of the most accessible and democratic in the world. Today educators from around the globe are turning to U.S. institutions of higher learning for inspiration.

According to the passage, what has made America's system of higher education a great success？

A．Accessibility, diversity, academic freedom and centralized governance.

B．Diversity, academic freedom, democracy and centralization.

C．Shared governance, diversity, academic freedom and accessibility.

D．Decentralization, diversity, academic freedom and shared governance.

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听力原文：The Europeans who left their homeland in the 18th and 19th centuries and settled

听力原文： The Europeans who left their homeland in the 18th and 19th centuries and settled their homes in North America are referred to as early settlers. Early settlers who came from the eastern parts of the present U.S.A. were used to having many trees around, so they found it rather hard to get used to living in a treeless plain like the state of Nebraska. When they first settled down in Nebraska, they needed large quantities of wood for building houses, making fires and doing many other things. Therefore they started many tree-planting plans that went on for years and years. Finally in 1872, a newspaperman named J. Sterling Morton had an idea: Why not have a special day set aside for planting trees. So Arbor Day was born on April 10th, 1872. The state government announced that it would give prizes to individuals and groups that planted the most trees. On that first day, more than 1,000,000 trees were planted in Nebraska. In this way Nebraska has been full of trees and it's green all the year around.

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A．Who the early settlers were.

B．When the first Arbor Day began.

C．How the first Arbor Day came into being.

D．Who was J. Sterling Morton.

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听力原文：Although cheese has been made in England for many centuries, the nation's first c

听力原文： Although cheese has been made in England for many centuries, the nation's first cheese factory was established just over one hundred years ago. By the mid 1930s there was a positive glut of cheese making farms--although they have decreased somewhat in recent years. There are innumerable varieties of cheese produced in England today. In the past goats' milk was favoured but these days cows' milk is usually used in the manufacture of cheese products. Cheeses such as Cheddar, Lancashire and Cheshire are still made by traditional methods, using milk produced on the maker's farm or local cheese farms. Some of them are independently graded and carry the "Farmhouse English Cheese" mark as a guarantee of quality. There has been much renewed interest in cheese making in England, which has resulted in the development of new cheeses and the re-appearance of old favourites. Many are made on farms or smallholdings, and can be purchased locally from specialist cheese shops. For example, Exmoor and Coleford Blue from the West Country, and Beamish and Swaledale from the North.

When was the first cheese factory established？

A．Over one hundred years ago.

B．Hundreds of years ago.

C．In 1930.

D．In 1913.

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听力原文： Workers in Athens, Greece started on Saturday removing the six ancient Greek sta

tues known as the Karyatids which hold up the temple dedicated to the goddess Athena on the Acropolis to take them indoors and save them from pollution. For 25 centuries the marble statues of maidens wearing long skirts, with their arms falling by their sides, have supported part of the structure called the Erechtheum. Time and pollution have eaten away at them, wearing away their features. And the decision has been taken to preserve them from further damage by keeping them in a specially-constructed air-conditioned museum on the Acropolis hill.

How many ancient Greek statues were removed indoors？

A．16

B．6

C．26

D．61

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听力原文：For centuries, parrots have been prized pets because of their strange talent for

听力原文： For centuries, parrots have been prized pets because of their strange talent for imitating human speech. They are able to hear vocal ranges, memorize the tones, and then repeat what they have heard. Often this skill is used to entertain people. But recently, an Amazon parrot, named Baby, was able to put this ability to work by helping police break up a gang of burglars responsible for over＄ 50,000 in property theft.

Baby helped the police to identify the gang of thieves. A recent robbery victim reported to the Baytown, Texas police that her parrot, Baby started acting strangely and saying new phrases after the robbery. Before the robbery, Baby had only a twenty-eight word vocabulary; afterwards, the bird started saying the additional phrases "Come back, Robert!" and "Come on, Ronnie!".

The police detectives were delighted. Although one man had already been arrested, Ronnie and Robert were the names of their two top suspects who were believed to have aided the first man. Under questioning, this suspect explained what had happened. When the robbers entered the house, they heard Baby talking and thought that someone was home. Ronnie and Robert began running away, while the third man yelled for them to come back. Baby remembered this incident and recorded their voices in her memory.

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A．A victim.

B．A police detective.

C．A robber.

D．A pet bird.

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听力原文：During the Orange Revolution, Viktor Yushchenko's name echoed across Kiev's Indep

听力原文： During the Orange Revolution, Viktor Yushchenko's name echoed across Kiev's Independence Square as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians reversed a fraudulent presidential election and put Mr. Yushchenko in office. But after just nine months, the President's Chief of Staff resigned, after leveling corruption charges against the highest levels of the new administration. The ensuing crisis has disenchanted many in Ukraine.

Expressing disappointment with politicians, however, is something ordinary Ukrainians did not have freedom to do in the past. For centuries, Ukrainian political rivalries were hidden from the public or led to bloody social upheavals. According to Ukrainian historian Orest Subtelny of York University in Toronto, Canada, the current crisis is unusual in Ukraine's history, but not in the history of democracies.

According to the news, the ordinary Ukrainians ______ to express their disappointment with politicians.

A．now have the freedom

B．are now afraid

C．have always had the freedom

D．have no freedom

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听力原文： Former U. S.president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter on Sunday condem

听力原文： Former U. S. president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter on Sunday condemned preparations for a unilateral U.S. attack on Iraq, saying it would be an unjust war "almost unprecedented in the history of civilized nations." In an article in The New York Times, Carter said profound changes in U.S. foreign policy had reversed "consistent bipartisan (由两党成员组成的，代表两党的；由两党支持的) commitments that for more than two centuries have earned our nation greatness." Carter, who served as president from 1977 to 1981, said that during his term he was "severely provoked by international crises.” “I became thoroughly familiar with the principles of a just war, and it is clear that a substantially unilateral attack on Iraq does not meet these standards," he said in his article.

Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter on Sunday condemned a unilateral U.S. attack on Iraq

A．at Nobel Prize awarding ceremony

B．in The New York Times

C．in The Washington Post

D．at the Capitol Hall

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听力原文：Copenhagen has been the capital of Denmark for 600 years and is also the largest

听力原文： Copenhagen has been the capital of Denmark for 600 years and is also the largest city in Scandinavia. Copenhagen means "merchants' harbor." It grew in size and importance because of its position, the body of water between Denmark and Sweden, guarding the entrance to the Baltic. From its humble beginnings, Copenhagen has become the largest city in Scandinavia. It's the seat of one of the oldest kingdoms in the world. Over the centuries Copenhagen has suffered more than its share of disasters. In the 17th century the Swedes repeatedly besieged it, and in the 18th century it endured the plague and two devastating fires. The British attacked twice during the Napoleonic wars in the early 1800s. Its last major disaster occurred in 1940 when the Nazis invaded Denmark and held it in their grip until 1945 when the British army moved in again, this time as liberators. Copenhagen still retains some of the characteristics of a village. If you forget the suburbs, you can cover most of the central belt on foot, making it a great place to visit.

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A．In the 17th century.

B．In 1940.

C．In the early 1800s.

D．In 1945.

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听力原文： The Amazon River is one of the largest rivers in South America. It flows through

several countries, including Brazil. Several centuries ago, when the colonizing Spaniard and Portuguese first arrived in that area, they found a well-developed local civilization which gradually died out under the influence of the invaders. Nowadays the area is inhabited by local Indians, some of them primitive peoples, and peasant farmers, the mixed descendants of the Indians, the Europeans and the Africans once brought to the continent as slaves. The area around the Amazon-known as the Amazon Basin-is famous for its dense tropical rain forest covering millions of hectares of land. Many of the local Indians live in the forest itself, depending on it for their food, clothes and shelter. The farmers on the fringes of the forest increase their farmland by cutting down the trees and burning the undergrowth-a method known as "slash and burn" farming. As the country strives to develop, large monoculture plantations growing crops such as sugar and coffee for export occupy an increasing amount of land.

Several centuries ago, Spaniards and Portuguese came to the Amazon River area to _________.

A．plant trees

B．help the native Indians

C．colonize the area.

D．look for new residential places

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听力原文：China was on Friday officially awarded its 31st World Heritage Site, the Historic

Center of Macao, during the 29th session of the World Heritage Committee, being held in Durban, South Africa.

Macao's bid under the name of Historic Center of Macao has been designated as China's only nomination this year to apply for the inscription on the World Heritage List of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Macao preserves China's largest clump of urban historical properties, as it had nearly five centuries of uninterrupted contact between East and West, after the Portuguese navigators settled in Macao in the mid- 16th century.

The Historic Center of Macau embraces 12 priceless cultural heritage sites, including China's oldest church, Christian cemetery, lighthouse and western theater.

During what session of the World Heritage Committee was China awarded its 31st World Heritage Site, the Historic Center of Macao？

A．29th.

B．30th.

C．28th.

D．31st.

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