The old gardener used to keep all his tools and do-it-yourself equipment in a ________ in
A.barn
B.room
C.hut
D.shed
A.barn
B.room
C.hut
D.shed
A.To laugh at the old one.
B.To take pity on the old one.
C.To show off its beautiful looks.
D.To praise the gardener"s kindness.
Allen and Beatrice Gardener managed to communicate with the chimpanzee by______.
A.training the chimpanzee to learn human language in an entirely new method
B.creating a language both man and the chimpanzee were able to use
C.using animal' s vocal language which the chimpanzee was able to understand
D.learning the chimpanzee's language with an entirely new approach
Allen and Beatrice Gardener managed to communicate with the chimpanzee by______________
A.training the chimpanzee to learn human language m an entirely new method
B.creating a language both man and the chimpanzee were able to use
C.using animal" s vocal language which the chimpanzee was able to understand
D.learning the chimpanzee s language with an entirely new approach
Part A
Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points)
"The news hit the British High Commission in Nairobi at nine-thirty on a Monday morning. Sandy Woodrow took it like a bullet, jaw rigid, chest out, smack through his divided English heart", Crikey. So that's how you take a bullet. Poor old Sandy. His English heart must be really divided now. This deliriously hardboiled opening sets the tone for what's to come. White mischief? Pshaw! White plague, more like it.
Sandy Woodrow is head of chancery at the British High Commission in Nairobi. The news that neatly subdivides his heart as the novel opens is the death of a young, beautiful and idealistic lawyer turned aid worker named Tessa Quayle. Tessa has been murdered for learning too much about the dishonest practices of a large pharmaceutical company operating in Africa. Her body is found at Lake Turkana, in northern Kenya near the border with Sudan. Tessa's husband, Justin, is also a British diplomat stationed in Nairobi. Until now Justin has been an obedient civil servant, content to toe the official line—in short, a hard worker. But all that changes in the aftermath of his wife's murder. Full of righteous anger, he resolves to get to the bottom of it, come what may.
"The Constant Gardener" has got plenty of tense moments and sudden twists and comes completely with shadowy figures lurking in the bush. There is a familiar tone of gentlemanly world- weariness to it all, which should keep Mr. le Carre's fans happy. But the novel is also an impassioned attack on the corruption which allows Africa to be used as a sort of laboratory for the testing of new medicines. Elsewhere, Mr. le Carte has denounced the "corporate cam, hypocrisy, corruption and greed" of the pharmaceutical industry. This position is excitingly dramatized in his book, even if the abuses he rails against are not exactly breaking news.
In other respects "The Constant Gardener" is less satisfactory. Mr. le Carte can't seem to make up his mind whether he's writing a thriller or an expose. Ina recent article for the New Yorker he described his creative process as "a kind of deliberately twisted journalism, where nothing is quite what it is" and where any encounter may be "freely recast for its dramatic possibilities". Such is the method employed in "The Constant Gardener", whose heroine. Mr. le Carte says, was inspired by an old friend of his. One or two prominent real-life Kenyan politicians are mentioned often enough to become, in effect. "characters" in the story. And in a note at the end of the book Mr. le Cane thanks the various diplomats, doctors, pharmaceutical experts and old Africa hands who gave him advice and assistance, though in the same breath he insists that the staff of the British mission in Nairobi are no doubt all jolly good eggs who bear no resemblance whatsoever to the heartless scoundrels in his story.
There's nothing wrong with a bit of artistic license, Of course. But Mr. le Carre's equivocation about the novel's relation to fact undermines its effectiveness as a work of social criticism, which is pretty clearly what it aspires to be. "The Constant Gardener" is a cracking thriller but a flawed exploration of a complicated set of political issues.
The Constant Gardener is a ______.
A.film
B.comedy
C.novel
D.document
SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST
Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. At the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions.
听力原文: London (dpa) - The Queen has imposed a palace ban on the use of mobile phones by her servants while they are on duty, after a barrage of calls disturbed a recent banquet held for foreign dignitaries, the Sun reported on Monday.
Quoting a Buckingham Palace source, the Sun said a series of royal family meals had been interrupted by trilling mobile phones, some playing customized melodies like the Hawaii Five-O theme tune and Colonel Bogey.
The Queen had initially laughed at this, but the final straw came when several flunkeys phones rang during a major banquet held for foreign dignitaries.
The ban applies to staff on duty at Buckingham Palace, the royal summer retreat at Balmoral in Scotland and Sandringham in Norfolk.
"It is fair to say the Queen was not amused when the phones started ringing incessantly," a palace source told the Sun.
"The first few times the mobiles went off the royals thought it was a bit of a laugh, but the noise and interruptions became irritating as more and more staff acquired them."
"Senior courtiers have also complained of the peace and quiet of the palace being disrupted by the sound of the Hawaii Five-O theme echoing down the corridors," he told the Sun.
The Times reports the Queen is looking for fresh young female budgerigars to reinvigorate the royal stock after generations of inbreeding.
Any old budgie would not do, the Times said, quoting Graham Stone, 44, a gardener at Windsor Castle in Berkshire, who bears the title Keeper of the Royal Budgerigars.
The Queen' s birds are of a free-flying variety, brightly coloured in green, blue and yellow, much smaller and faster than the caged domestic bird, with entirely different instincts and absolutely no vocabulary.
As Princess Elizabeth, the Queen was given a pair of budgies by an official in the 1930s. The flock grew to such an extent that today there about 100.
"They seem to have lost the vigour of breeding in the past two years. They haven' t had any fresh blood for decades. We lose a few to the sparrowhawks and kestrels in Windsor Home Park and now have too many males and not enough fresh females, Sone said.
At first, the Queen's attitude towards the mobile phones was that she felt ______.
A.annoyed
B.angry
C.a bit of laugh
D.somewhat confused
You can read the______(revise) edition if the old edition is of no use to you.
A、The old curtain.
B、The new cloth.
C、The old clothes.
D、The new clothes.
A.use
B.necessary
C.usage
D.necessity
A.purpose
B.meaning
C.fact
D.use
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