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第1题

The three religions all take Foundation Stone located in ______ as their halidom, and it has become the cheif culprit of religious conflict in Jerusalem.

A、Al-Aqsa Mosque

B、the Dome of the Rock

C、the Western Wall

D、the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

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第2题

______ was destroyed in 70 AD by the Romans and their leader Titus.

A、The First Temple

B、The Second Temple

C、The Western Wall

D、The Church of the Holy Sepulture

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第3题

根据下列选项，回答下列各题： Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over t

he passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A．, B．, C．and D．. For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage. The "Lost" Great Wall of China A forgotten section of the Great Wall of China has been discovered deep in the Gobi Desert--and outside of China--researchers say. With the help of Google Earth, an international expedition documented the ancient wall for roughly 100 kilometers (62 miles) in a restricted border zone in southern Mongolia in August 2011. The defensive barrier formed part of the Great Wail system built by successive Chinese dynasties to repel Mongol invaders from the north, according to findings published in the March issue of the Chinese edition of National Geographic magazine. (The National Geographic Society is responsible for both the magazine and Nationai Geographic News.) Preserved to a height of 9 feet (2.75 meters) in places, the desert discovery belongs to a sequence of remnant(遗留的 ) walls in Mongolia collectively known as the Wall of Genghis Khan, said expedition leader and Great Wall researcher William Lindesay. Named after the founder of the Mongol Empire, the Wall of Genghis Khan usually survives only as "a faint trace," Lindesay said in an email. But "we found a real wail, standing high and existing as a dominant landscape feature," he said. Whats more, it wasnt the work of Genghis Khan or his heirs but actually a long-lost segment of the Great Wall of China network, the teams findings suggest. First to Investigate New Great Wall？ Close to China in the border region of omnogovi Province, the ancient structure hadnt been scientifically explored or studied before, said Lindesay, director of the International Friends of the Great Wall conservation group, based in Beijing, China. "Were the first to investigate the ruins," he said. "According to the army officers who minded us, we were the first outsiders to be allowed into the area," Lindesay added. "We assumed various local Mongolians had been to the area, but had not considered the structure of much interest." At times seeking out topographic clues seen in Google Earth--the wall is visible on satellite images—the team located two well preserved but contrasting stretches of wall. One section had been made mainly with wet mud and a woody desert shrub(灌木)called saxaul(梭梭树)， the other from blocks of black volcanic rock. Along its vast length, Lindesay suspects, the wall originally stood at least 2 meters (6.5 feet) taller than it does today. "What we found was just the last remaining piece of a fossil--the skull or the large thighbone, with the rest missing," he said. "One can expect the wall was both much higher and continuous for vast distances." That dark basaltic rock(玄武岩)seems to have been an obvious choice for the second stretch，which crosses the rugged(崎岖的)remains of extinct volcanoes． The clean，straight edges to the blocks indicate that the stone was quarried(开采)，which would have required a large，organized work．force and an efficient transport system，the team said． Rewriting History Ancient Mongolian texts suggest that the so-called Wall of Genghis Khan was built as an animal fence by Khans son Ogedei to keep wild gazelle (羚羊) on his land. But the recently explored Gobi Desert wall segment isnt in a region where large herds of gazelle occur. "There would be no reason to build an animal wall in the Gobi," said anthropologist (人类学家) and Mongolia historian Jack Weathefford, formerly of Macalester College, Minnesota. Chinese researchers, perhaps not surprisingly, have speculated that Chinas Han dynasty had erected these little-studied stretches in about 115 B.C. But radiocarbon (放射性碳) dating of partly exposed wood and rope remains extracted from the wall indicates that the saxaul-segment construction occurred about a thousand years later than thought, from A.D. 1040 to 1160. Those dates hint that the Western Xia dynasty built the walls--or at least rebuilt old Han walls on the sites. Holding Back the Mongol Tide This northwestern Chinese dynasty isnt known to have contributed to the Great Wall system, but in at least one aspect, a Western Xia origin makes sense. During the Western Xia period, Mongol tribes were rising in strength and making forays (侵略 ) south, Lindesay noted. "If one imagines the wall as a platform, with some kind of battlement--perhaps of wooden stakes, functioning as a shield to those manning its top---then it would have been an effective defense installation (防护驻地)," he said. But, mysteriously, the expedition team found no pottery, no trash, no coins, no weapons--nothing to prove the wall was ever actually manned. Nor did they find any of the watchtowers that mark surviving sections of the Great Wall within China. "The wall system was incomplete," Lindesay said. "It not only lacked the signaling capability to make smoke signals--it didnt appear to be capable of accommodating troops." Unfinished Business "I believe the wall here is only half built and that there was, for some reason, a rethink on locating the wall here," Lindesay said. It isnt difficult to imagine how the purported (传说中的) Great Wall segments harsh desert location might have led to the remote frontier defense being abandoned, he added. Weatherford, the Minnesota-based anthropologist, agrees with Lindesays conclusion that the newfound remains were Chinese constructions. Theres a good reason, Weatherford added, that the stretch nevertheless carries Genghis Khans name. Mongolians, he said, are sensitive to the idea of "Chinese structures built on their land", since it carries the possible claim that the land was once Chinese. "By calling it the Genghis Khan Wall, the name makes the place Mongolian and rejects foreign influence," Weatherford said. He also describes the expedition new findings as"very important, because to my knowledge this wall has not been studied." "I would risk saying that it is the largest human-made structure or artifact in all of Mongolia," he added. "It is amazing to me that it is not already much better analyzed." According to this passage, the purpose of building the Great Wall system is to __________.

A.avoid the trouble of sending an army to defend the area

B.repel Mongol invaders from the north

C.indicate where the b. order line between Mongol and China is

D.rival with the Wall of Genghis Khan

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第4题

听力原文：Today school children in many countries have high rates of falling eye-sight. Two

听力原文： Today school children in many countries have high rates of falling eye-sight. Two methods have been proposed to prevent near-sightedness, one Western and one Chinese. The Western method was developed by Mr. Bates, a British actor, in the early part of this century. He trained people to relax their eyes frequently during a period of intense reading. His methods included covering open eyes with the palms of the hands and looking at distant objects by moving the eyes from side to side instead of staring at them. Bates also encouraged school children to look frequently at a calendar on the wall of the classroom to relax their eyes. A famous British writer even wrote a book on the beneficial effects of the Bates method for his vision.

The traditional Chinese method involves pressing certain points around the eyes with fingers. This also relaxes excessive tension in eye muscles. It is best done by doctors trained in traditional Chinese medicine, but it can also be done by students themselves.

Teachers and parents should encourage pupils to relax their eyes frequently while reading and studying.

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A．He was a doctor.

B．He was a writer.

C．He was an actor.

D．He was a teacher.

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第5题

听力原文：Despite various improvements in all aspects of social life, the generation gap be

听力原文： Despite various improvements in all aspects of social life, the generation gap between the grown-up and young remains unbridged. Instead, it grows wider apart.

Nowadays, the youths do not blindly follow what their elders say. Owing to the widespread of education, the influence of western civilization, to a certain extent, gives them a new code of philosophy, which is completely different from that of their elders. An invisible cold wall thus appears between the two generations.

Modern youths are trying to be more revolutionary. They have their own interpretation for different matters; they also have their own ideals. Their reluctance to learn old teachings and sayings becomes the constant friction between the two generations. They always introduce new changes. However, the old people, wedded to everything of the past, are hostile to changes and the generation gap becomes wider and wider.

After all, the young generation, like the old one, is made of flesh and blood. The young also need respect and they also have skills and good ideas. In order to narrow the gap, both groups should respect each other, listen to the words of each other. Most probably, these may help to solve the problem.

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A．Generation gap.

B．Modem youths.

C．Influence of western civilization.

D．Social improvements.

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第6题

听力原文：Today school children in many countries have high rates of failing eyesight. Two

听力原文： Today school children in many countries have high rates of failing eyesight. Two methods have been proposed to prevent near-sightedness, one Western and one Chinese. The Western method was developed by Mr. Bates, a British actor, in the early part of last century. He trained people to relax their eyes frequently during a period of intense reading. His methods included covering open eyes with the palms of the hands and looking at distant objects by moving the eyes from side to side instead of staring at them. Bates also encouraged school children to look frequently at a calendar on the wall of the classroom to relax their eyes. A famous British writer even wrote a book on the beneficial effects of the Bates' method for his vision.

The traditional Chinese method involves pressing certain points around the eyes with the fingers. This also relaxes excessive tension in eye muscles, it is best done by doctors trained in traditional Chinese medicine, but it can also be done by students themselves.

Teachers and parents should encourage pupils to relax their eyes frequently while reading and studying.

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A．He was a doctor.

B．He was a writer.

C．He was an actor.

D．He was a teacher.

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第7题

Section D听力原文：Nobody knows for certain what the origins of music were. Music is certai

Section D

听力原文： Nobody knows for certain what the origins of music were. Music is certainly older than poetry and painting but as early man had no way of recording it, we can only guess what it sounded like. Watching a child banging on a drum with its hands or a piece of wood, it is easy to see that this is the simplest of instruments. It does not take much effort to produce a rhythm on it.

Wall painting show what some of the first instruments looked like. Early civilization had already discovered the three basic ways of producing music; blowing into a tube, striking an object, and scraping a string. We know that western music comes from the ancient Greeks. The musical scales we use now are based on certain sequences of notes which the Greeks used to create a particular mood.

Until the sixteenth century, most players of instruments were single performers, but as music became more widespread, orchestras and musical groups began to appear. This brought about the writing of music to be played by several musicians at one time. This can certainly be called the birth of modern music.

Nobody knows for certain what the origins of music were. Music is certainly older than poetry and painting but as early man had no way of【21】______it, we can only guess what it sounded like. Watching a child【22】______on a drum with its hands or a piece of wood, it is easy to see that this is the simplest of instruments. It does not take much effort to produce a (23) ______on it.

Wall painting shows what some of the first instruments looked like. Early civilization had already【24】______the three basic ways of producing music: blowing into a tube, striking an object, and (25) ______ a string. We know that western music comes from the ancient Greeks. The musical【26】______we use now are based on certain sequences of notes which the Greeks used to create【27】______.

Until the sixteenth century, most players of instruments were single performers, but (28) ______, orchestras and musical groups began to appear. This brought about (29) ______to be played by several musicians at one time. This can certainly【30】______.

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第8题

听力原文：Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut, the first child of the

听力原文： Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut, the first child of the family. His grandfather, Prescott Bush, was a Wall Street financier who was elected to the Senate of the United States from Connecticut in 1952. Although his father began his career in the oil industry, he eventually served as a congressman.

At the age of two, Bush moved with his parents from Connecticut to Odessa, Texas, where his father embarked on a career in the petroleum business. After a year in Texas, the family moved to California for business reasons. A year later, the family moved back to Texas and settled in Midland, a town in western Texas legated about 500 km (300 mi) from Fort Worth. Bush lived in Midland from 1950 to 1959. He had three brothers Jeb, Neil, and Marvin, and a sister, Dorothy. In 1959, again for business reasons, the family moved to Houston, Texas. In 1961 Bush left Texas and went to Andover, Massachusetts, to attend Phillips Academy, a boarding school that his father had also attended.

At Phillips, Bush played basketball, baseball, and football. He was best known for being heed cheerleader. In 1964 he enrolled at Yale University in Connecticut; his father and grandfather had also attended Yale. That same year, Bush campaigned for his father in his unsuccessful bid to win a U.S. Senate seat from Texas.

At Yale, Bush was considered an average student, but he was popular with his classmates. During Bush's time at Yale, college students all over the country began to hold protests about a variety of issues, including protests against U.S. involvement in rite Vietnam War (1959-1975). Bush was uncomfortable with the growth of the student protest movement, and he generally refrained from participating in campus polities. In 1968 he campaigned on behalf of his father, who was running for reelection for a seat in the House of Representatives that he had won in 1966.

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A．He was a Wall Street financier.

B．He was a congressman.

C．He did petroleum business.

D．He began his career in the oil industry.

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第9题

Soccer is played by millions of people all over the world, but there have only been a few

players who were truly great. How did these players get that way--was it through training and practice, or are great players" born, not made" ？ First, these players came from places that have had famous stars in the past--players that a young boy can look up to and try to imitate. In the history of soccer, only six countries have ever won the World Cup--three from South America and three from western Europe. There has never been a great national team--or a really great player--from North America or from Asia. Second, these players have all had years of practice in the game. Alfredo Di Stefano was the son of a soccer player, as was Pele. Most players begin playing the game at the age of three or four.

Finally, many great players come from the same kind of neighborhood--a poor, crowded area where a boy's dream is not to be a doctor, lawyer, or businessman, but to become a rich, famous athlete or entertainer. For example, Liverpool, which produced the Beatles, had one of the best English soccer teams in recent years. Pele practiced in the street with a "ball" made of rags. And George Best learned the tricks that made him famous by bouncing the ball off a wall in the slums of Belfast.

All great players have a lot in common, but that doesn't explain why they are great. Hundreds of boys played in those Brazilian streets, but only one became Pele. The greatest players are born with some unique quality that sets them apart from all the others.

According to the author, which of the following statements is true？

A．Soccer is popular all over the world, but truly great players are rare.

B．Millions of people all over the world are playing soccer, but only six countries have ever hadfamous stars.

C．Soccer is played by millions of people all over the world, but only six countries from SouthAmerica and western Europe have ever had great national teams.

D．All over the world soccer is one of the most popular games, but it seems least popular in North America or Asia.

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第10题

A hurricane （飓风) is a powerful, rotating storm that forms over warm oceans near the equa

A hurricane (飓风) is a powerful, rotating storm that forms over warm oceans near the equator. Hurricanes have strong, rotating winds, a huge amount of rain, low air【C1】______, thunder and lightning.

Hurricane winds【C2】______ in a counterclockwise spiral (螺旋状) around the calm, roughly【C3】______ center called the eye. in the eye,【C4】______ is roughly 20 to 30 miles wide, it is relatively calm and there is【C5】______ or no rain. The eye is the warmest part of the storm. Surrounding the eye is the eyewall, a wall of thunderclouds. The eyewall has the most rain and the strongest winds of the storm.【C6】______ rotating with wind speeds of at least 74 mph, a hurricane travels【C7】______ slowly across the ocean or land, usually【C8】______ about 20 to 25 mph. Long spiral rainbands (bands of rain clouds)【C9】______ to spiral inward to the eyewall. Hurricanes can be hundreds of miles【C10】______.

If this type of storm【C11】______ in the western Pacific Ocean, it is called a typhoon.

The exact location of a hurricane is easily【C12】______ by scientists, using satellite photos and radar.【C13】______ the direction, speed, and【C14】______ of a storm can change quickly,【C15】______ exactly where a storm will travel in the future is not easy.

Hurricanes can travel from the ocean to the coast and on to land,【C16】______ the wind, rain, and huge waves may cause extensive【C17】______. Generally, when a hurricane moves over land (or over cold ocean waters), the storm begins to【C18】______ and quickly【C19】______ because the storm is【C20】______ by warm water.

【C1】

A．movement

B．temperature

C．pressure

D．speed

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The Western Wall, also named as "The Wailing Wall" serves as a symbol of Jewish exile and also historic Jewish glory and hope of redemption.