We live in a time （) , more than ever before in history, people are moving.

in the kitchen with us.

M: Me, too. Are we picking her up at the station？

Q: Why is the woman excited？

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A．Because she will have a new kitchen.

B．Because she is going to see her mother.

C．Because her grandmother will come to live with them.

D．Because her husband has bought her a new house.

阅读材料，回答题。

Step Back in Time

Do you know that we live a lot longer now than the people who were born before us？ One hundred years ago the average woman lived to be 45. But now， she can live until at least 80.

One of the main reasons for people living longer is that we know how to look after ourselves better. We know which foods are good for us and what we have to eat to make sure our bodies get all the healthy things they need.We know why we sometimes get ill and what to do to get better again. And we know how important it is to do lots of exercise to keep our hearts beating healthily.

But in order that we don"t slip back into bad habits， let"s have a look at what life was like 100 years ago.

Families had between 15 and 20 children， although many babies didn"t live long.Children suffered from lots of diseases， especially tickets （佝偻病 ） and scurvy （坏血病） ， which are both caused by bad diets. This is because many families were very poor and not able to feed their children well.

Really poor families who lived in crowded cities like London and Manchester often slept standing up，bending over a piece of string， because there was no room for them to lie down.

People didn"t have fridges until the 1920s. They kept fresh food cold by storing it on windowsills （窗台板 ） ， blocks of ice， or even burying it in the garden.

Some children had to start work at the age of seven or eight to earn money for their parents. If you had lived 100 years ago， you might well be selling matchsticks （火柴杆） （a job done by many children ） or working with your dad by now.

16. On average women lived longer than men 100 years ago. 查看材料

A.Right

B.Wrong

C.Not mentioned

When we speak of a human need, we mean something

which is unnecessary to life, something we can live with. 【M1】______

Food is a human need. We will starve to death if there 【M2】______

were no food on earth; but even if we have plenty of food,

but of the wrong kind, our bodies will have problem from

lack of the right food. This is known for malnutrition (营 【M3】______

养不良).

In countries where are not developed, man's food 【M4】______

needs are the same like in the most advanced societies. We 【M5】______

all need food and could live a good life on very few types of

food. People in very developed countries eat only the kinds 【M6】______

of food which can be grown near their homes, whereas

people in developed countries eat foods which are often

grown many thousands of miles away form. their homes.

People in undeveloped countries are happy with less

different kinds of foods than people in very developed ones

are, so we can say that despite the needs of the two kinds 【M7】______

of people are the same, their wants are different. People in

very developed countries eat many different types of

meat--they could live by only one, but they would be very 【M8】______

unhappy because every time what they ate was the same.

Even such special foods like chicken would be less fun to 【M9】______

eat if you had them every day. But we can't just live on

meat--we need other kinds of food like bread, rice, and

vegetables which are no more necessary to our bodies. 【M10】______

【M1】

A.as B.for C.to D.beyond E.out

Love to us human is what water _____1 fish.Love shines the most beautiful light of humanity.We were born in it and we live by it.We should cherish love,but too often we take it_____2granted.How to cherish the love？I have heard a saying:the quickest way to receive love is to giveit;the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly;the best way to keep love is to give it wings.

When you are young,you may want several love experiences.But _____3 time goes on,you willrealize that if you really love someone,the whole life will not be enough.You need time to know,to forgive and to love.It is important for us to learn to love as the first class in our life.Only whenyou know how to love will you be a real man in this world.Love brings us bright when life gets hard and dark.Love brings us confidence toward life when we are tired _____4 and want to give up.Love deserves all the admiring words,and love is even _____5 the life and death.That is what love is all about in my eyes.

听力原文： Air travel is such an everyday experience these days. We are not surprised when we read about a politician having talks with the Japanese Prime Minister one day, attending a conference in Australia the following morning and having to be off at midday to sign a trade agreement in Bangkok. But frequent long-distance flying can be very tiring. The traveler begins to feel his brain is in one country, his digestion in another and his powers of concentration nowhere. In short, he hardly knows where he is.

The fatigue we normally experience after a long journey is more intensely felt when we fly from east to west or the other way round because we cross time zones. Air travel is so quick nowadays that we can leave London after breakfast and be in New York in eight hours, yet what really disturbs us most is that when we arrive it is only lunch time but we have already had lunch on the plane and are expecting dinner.

Doctors say that since air travelers are in no condition to work after crossing a number of time zones, they should go straight to bed on arrival. Airline pilots, in fact, whose experience is so obviously relevant that it ought to serve as a guide, often live by their own watches ignoring local time, and have breakfast at midnight if necessary. The less reason to worry about their health is because they are used to flying and are physically fit.

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A．Because he is a politician.

B．Because he is a businessman.

C．Because he travels by air.

D．Because he has to attend different meetings.

根据内容回答题。

Step Back in Time

Do you know that we live a lot longer now than the people who were born before us？ One hundred years ago the average woman lived to be 45. But now, she can live until at least 80.

One of the main reasons for people living longer is that we know how to look after ourselves better. We know which foods are good for US and what we have to eat to make sure our bodies get all the healthy things they need. We know why we sometimes get ill and what to do to get better again. And we know how important it is to do lots of exercise to keep our hearts beating healthily.

But in order that we don&39;t slip back into bad habits,let&39;s have a look at what life was like 100 years ago.

Families had between 15 and 20 children,although many babies didn&39;t live long. Children suffered from lots of diseases, especially rickets (佝偻病)and scurvy (坏血病), which are both caused by bad diets. This is because many families were very poor and not able to feed their chil- dren well.

Really poor families who lived in crowded cities like London and Manchester often slept standing up, bending over a piece of string, because there was no room for them to lie down.

People didn&39;t have fridges until the 1920s. They kept fresh food cold by storing it on window- sills(窗台板) ,blocks of ice ,or even burying it in the garden.

Some children had to start work at the age of seven or eight to earn money for their parents. If you had lived 100 years ago, you might well be selling matchsticks(火柴杆) (a job done by many children)or working with your dad by now.

On average women lived longer than men 100 years ago. 查看材料

A.Right

B.Wrong

C.Not mentioned

根据下面材料，回答题。

It is predicted that there will be 5 scientific breakthroughs in the 21st century. We"ll know where we came from. Why does the universe exist？ To put it another way， why is there something instead of nothing？ Since the 1920s， scientists have known the universe is expanding， which means it must have started at a definite time in the past. They even have developed theories that give a detailed picture of the evolution 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 refined by data from extraordinary powerful new telescope. We will have a better understanding of how matter behaves at the unfathomably high temperatures and pressures of the early universe.

We"ll crack the genetic code and conquer cancer. In 19th century operas， when the heroine coughs in the first act， the audience knows she will die of tuberculosis in Act 3. But thanks to 20th century antibiotics， the once dreaded， once incurable disease now can mean nothing more serious than taking some pills. As scientists learn more about the genetic code and the way cells work at the molecular level， many serious diseases——cancer， for one- will become less threatening. Using manufactured "therapeutic" viruses， doctors will be able to replace cancer causing damaged DNA

with healthy genes， probably administered by a pill or injection.

We"ll live longer （120 years？） If the normal aging process is basically a furious， invisible contest in our cells- a contest between damage to our DNA and our cells ability to repair that damage- then 21st century strides in genetic medicine may let us control and even reverse the process. But before we push scientists to do more， consider: Do we really want to live in a world where no one grows old and few children are born because the planet can hold only so many people？

Where would new ideas come from？ What would we do with all that extra time？

We"ll "manage" Earth. In the next millennium， well stop talking about the weather but will do something about it. Well gradually learn how to predict the effects of human activity on the Earth，its climate and its ecosystems. And with that knowledge will come an increasing willingness to use it to manage the workings of our planet.

We"ll have "a brain road map". This is the real "final frontier" of the 21st century: The brain is the most complex system we know. It contains about 100 billion neurons （roughly the number of stars in the Milky Way）， each connected to as many as 1，000 others. Early in the next century， we will use advanced forms of magnetic resonance imaging to produce detailed maps of the neurons in operation. We"ll be able to say with certainty which ones are working when you read a word， when you say a word， when you think about a word， and so on.

The sentence "In 19th century operas， when the heroine coughs in the first act， the audience knows she will die of tuberculosis in Act 3" means__________. 查看材料

A.there was not antibiotics at that time

B.tuberculosis was a terrible disease that couldn"t be cured during 19th century

C.the health of the heroine was very poor

D.this was a common situation in the 19th century operas

g about the other people around me except that we were all somehow equal. There was only one class. Nobody was interested in getting on top of anybody else.

You could see it in our games. Nobody organized them. There weren't any competitive sports. But we took part in lots of activities and we were organized, not in the sense that there were wars of finding out who had won and who had lost. We played balls like everyone else, but no one kept scores. Even if we did formally take part in the games we played, no one was a winner though someone may have won. It was only at that moment. If you beat someone by pulling a bow (弓) and arrow (箭) and shooting the arrow further, it didn't mean you were better in any way. It just meant that at that particular time the arrow went further; maybe it was just the way you let the bow go. These kinds of things are very important to me and that is why I am talking about them.

One of the very important things was the relationship we had with our families. We didn't always live at home. We lived wherever we happened to be at that particular time when it got dark. If you were two or three miles away from home, then that was where you slept.

According to the writer, in India ______.

A．all the people were kind and equal in different activities

B．all the people quarreled with each other in every fight

C．people often took part in different fights

D．every child tried to climb to the top of ail the activities

听力原文： Most people think of astronomers as people who spend their time in cold observatories peering through telescope every night. In fact, a typical, astronomer spends most of his or her time analyzing data and may only be at the telescope a few weeks of the year. Some astronomers work on purely theoretical problems and never use a telescope at all. You night not know how rarely images are viewed directly through telescopes. The most common way to observe the skies is to photograph them. The process is very simple. First, a photographic plate is coated with a lightsensitive material. The plate is positioned so that the image received by the telescope is recorded on it. Then, the image cam he developed, enlarged and published so that many people can study it. Because most astronomical objects are very remote, the light we receive from them is rather feeble. But by using a telescope as a camera, long time exposures can be made. In this way objects can be photographed that are a hundred times tm faint to be seen by just looking through a telescope.

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A．They devote a lot of time to theoretical problems.

B．They spend most of their time looking through telescopes.

C．They are constantly analyzing data.

D．They often live near observatories.

Subway

If anything truly revolutionized the way New Yorkers live, work and play, it's the subway. On any given weekday, 4.5 million people travel on the 6,400 cars that run along 722 miles of track beneath the city's five teeming (热闹的) boroughs. For all their complaints about it-the dirt! The crowding! The noise!—the subway remains nothing short of the miracle it was when the subway opened in 1904.

What was the original impetus behind developing the subway？

Existence on these streets, with the teeming masses, could not be borne any longer. Many areas were very diseased, new immigrants were huddled together. What was needed was the development of the outer boroughs to really occupy the workers, and the people needed to fill the jobs and facilities and services that Manhattan always had.

Was there any resistance to building it？

New York City had all the difficulties that we have today: NIMBY-ism existed even then. We had Tammany Hall we had corruption. But we also had a lot of very high-minded New Yorkers, people who really felt that this city must grow and had the best interests of the city at heart. At the same time electricity was invented. Being a very, very new science it was being very closely adapted for street railways. Then you have this invention of multiple-unit train control, where whole series of cars can run at the same time while piloted by the first-car motorman. That was an incredible thing. Now they had the tools in which they could run underground and not worry about soot ventilation(通风). Then of course you have to pick the route. Just like today, everybody wants it to go somewhere else. It's very interesting to note that the first subway route was a public-private venture, where the city owned the subway and put up the money, some ＄50 million, which at the time was astronomical(庞大的).

Is the initial economic impact at all quantifiable？

Around 1910, before the subway started going to Brooklyn it was nowhere near a million in population. Within ab6ut 10 years of the opening of the subway systems there, the population goes beyond a million. If you look at the 1930s when it went out to Flushing, there's nothing out there. It's like prairie; it's like going out to Montana. If you look at it after the war, there's not one lot left. Basically, we built an empire based on public transit. This does not happen with the automobile. We did not see this with the maze of highway systems that went up. What we did see was the deterioration of the center core city to the growth of the suburbs. One of the things about a subway car, there's from 40 to 150 people in this ear. I am now going to put every one of them in an automobile: You would have a line of automobiles that would stretch four to five blocks in length. But they all fit in one subway car, they all fit in one bus.

Is subway central to the city even today？

Everything the city of New York depends on the growth of the subway system. About three quarters of people took the train to work today. The idea of public transit is essential, sensible and the key to a healthy city. The ability New York City had on the opening of the subway is that they could physically move 30,000 people from 125th Street to Wall Street in less than 15 minutes. That's incredible. No one was able to do that. When the subway system was able to pull this kind of volume, people said "You know, I think I am going to live in the Bronx. I think I am going to live in upper Manhattan-96th Street doesn't look so far away when you think of it." It was a massive success, it was money spent in the right place. I would say that that ＄50 million probably brought the tune of trillions of dollars and are still producing trillions of dollars to this day.

Why did people think the subway was an aesthetic wonder？

More than a technological feat, the subway was also

A．Y

B．N

C．NG

-【21】qualitatively but quantitatively - how the world works. We might【22】a universe in which there are no such laws, in which the 108 elementary particles that【23】a universe like our own behave with utter and uncompromising abandon. To understand such a universe we would need a brain【24】as massive as the universe. It seems【25】that such a universe could have life and intelligence, because being and brains【26】some degree of internal stability and order. But【27】in a much more random universe there were such beings with an intelligence much【28】than our own, there could not be much knowledge, passion or joy.

【29】for us, we live in a universe that has at least important parts that are knowable. Our common-sense experience and our evolutionary history have【30】us to understand something of the workaday world. When we go into other realms, however, common sense and ordinary intuition【31】highly unreliable guides. It is stunning that as we go close to the speed of light our mass【32】indefinitely, we shrink toward zero thickness【33】the direction of motion, and time for us comes as near to stopping as we would like. Many people think that this is silly, and every week【34】I get a letter from someone who complains to me about it. But it is virtually certain consequence not just of experiment but also of Albert Einstein's【35】analysis of space and time called the Special Theory of Relativity. It does not matter that these effects seem unreasonable to us. We are not【36】the habit of traveling close to the speed of light. The testimony of our common sense is suspect at high velocities.

The idea that the world places restrictions on【37】humans might do is frustrating. Why shouldn't we be able to have intermediate rotational positions？ Why can't we【38】faster than the speed of light？ But【39】we can tell, this is the way the universe is constructed. Such prohibitions not only【40】us toward a little humility; they also make the world more knowable.

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A．just

B．very

C．just not

D．not just