第1部分：词汇选项下面每个句子中均有1个词或短语画有底横线，请为每处画线部分确定1个意义最为接近的选项。 第2部分：阅读判断下面的短文后列出了7个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断：如果该句提供的是正确信息，请选择A；如果该句提供的是错误信息，请选择B；如果该句的信息文中没有提及，请选择C。 Coming Soon to a Theater Near You!
What are special effects? Do you enjoy movies that use a lot of special effects?
Dinosaurs from the distant past! Space battles from the distant future! There has been a revolution in special effects, and it has transformed the movies we see.
The revolution began in the mid-1970s with George Lucas's Star Wars, a film that stunned (使震惊) audiences. That revolution continues to the present, with dramatic changes in special-effects technology. The company behind these changes is Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). And the man behind the company is Dennis Muren, who has worked with Lucas since Star Wars.
Muren's interest in special effects began very early. At age 6, he was photographing toy dinosaurs and spaceships. By 10, he had an 8-millimeter movie camera and was making these things move through stop-motion. (Stop-motion is a process in which objects are shot with a camera, moved slightly, shot again, and so on. When the shots are put together, the objects appear to move.)
Talk to Muren and you'll understand what ILM is all about: taking on new challenges. By 1989, Muren decided he had pushed the old technology as far as it would go.
He saw computer graphics (CG) technology as the wave of the future and took a year off to master it.
With CG technology, images can be scanned into a computer for processing, for example, and many separate shots can be combined into a single image. CG technology has now reached the point, Muren says, where special effects can be used to do just about anything so that movies can tell stories better than ever before. The huge success of Jurassic Park and its sequel, The Lost World, the stars of which were computer-generated dinosaurs, suggests that this may very well be true. 第一篇 Rising College Selectivity
Rising college selectivity doesn't mean that students are smarter and more serious than in the past, although a few clearly are. It's a function of excess demand for higher education occurring at a time of increased financial privatization of the industry.
The recession has only increased demand. The vast majority of students aren't going to college because of a thirst for knowledge, or even for the cultural and social adventure they hope to have. They're there because they need a job, and they need to get the credentials—and, one hopes the knowledge and skills behind the credentials—that will get them into the labor market.
As higher education has become a seller's market, the institutions in a position to do so are doing what comes naturally: raising their tuitions and their admissions requirements, but at the expense of contributing to the national goal to increase college attainment. The result is that the United States is losing ground in the international race for educational talent, because although we have some of the best institutions in the world, the whole is less than the sum of its parts.
The increasing stratification of higher education is happening on the spending side, as well. As the selective institutions have become more expensive and less attainable, the rest have had to struggle with the responsibility to enroll more students without being paid to do so. Gaps between rich and poor have grown even more dramatically than gaps in entering test scores. While spending is a poor measure of educational quality, we can't seriously expect to increase educational attainment if we're not prepared to do something to address these growing inequities in funding.
That said, the educational policy problem in our country is not that the elite restitutions are becoming more selective. They are what they are, and they're getting more like themselves all the time. The problem is on the public policy side. The president and many governors have set a goal to return America to a position of international leadership in educational attainment.
It's the right goal, we just need a financing strategy to get there. That doesn't mean just more money, although some more money will be needed. It also means better attention to effectiveness and to efficiency, and to making sure that spending goes to the places that will make a difference in educational attainment. We know how to do it, if we want to. 第二篇 Why So Risky in Chemical Factories
Which is safer—staying at home, traveling to work on public transport, or working in the office? Surprisingly, each of these carries the same risk, which is very low. However, what about flying compared to working in the chemical industry? Unfortunately, the former is 65 times riskier than the latter! In fact, the accident rate of workers in the chemical industry is less than that of almost any of human activity, and almost as safe as staying at home.
The trouble with the chemical industry is that when things go wrong they often cause death to those living nearby. It is this which makes chemical accidents so newsworthy. Fortunately, they are extremely rare. The most famous ones happened at Texas City (1947), Flixborough (1974), Seveso (1976), Pemex (1984) and Bhopal (1984).
Some of these are always in the minds of the people even though the loss of life was small. No one died at Seveso, and only 28 workers at Flixborough. The worst accident of all was Bhopal, where up to 3,000 were killed. The Texas City explosion of fertilizer killed 552. The Pemex fire at a storage plant for natural gas in the suburbs of Mexico City took 542 lives, just a month before the unfortunate event at Bhopal.
Some experts have discussed these accidents and used each accident to illustrate a particular danger. Thus the Texas City explosion was caused by tons of ammonium nitrate (硝酸铵), which is safe unless stored in great quantity. The Flixborough fireball was the fault of management, which took risks to keep production going during essential repairs. The Seveso accident shows what happens if the local authorities lack knowledge of the danger on their doorstep. When the poisonous gas drifted over the town, local leaders were incapable of taking effective action. The Pemex fire was made worse by an overloaded site in an overcrowded suburb. The fire set off a chain reaction of exploding storage tanks. Yet, by a miracle, the two largest tanks did not explode. Had these caught fire, then 3,000 strong rescue team and fire fighters would all have died. 第6部分：完形填空下面的短文有15处空白，请根据短文内容为每处空白确定1个最佳选项。 Men Smell of Cheese and Women of Onions
Little girls may be made of sugar and all things nice, but their armpits (腋部) 1 of onions. And while free of slug or snail odours, men's armpits pack a 2 cheesy whiff. That's the 3 of research in Switzerland that involved taking armpit sweat samples from 24 men and 25 women after he had 4 time in a sauna or ridden an exercise bike for 15 minutes.
The researchers found marked 5 in the sweat from men and women. "Men smell of cheese, and women of grapefruit (葡萄柚) or onion," says Christian Starkenmann of Firmenich, a company in Geneva 6 researches flavors and perfumes for food and cosmetics companies.
The team 7 that the women's armpit sweat constrained relatively high levels of an odourless sulphur-containning compound—5 milligrams per milliliter of sweat versus 0.5 milligrams in men.
When the researchers mixed this compound in the lab with bacteria commonly found in the armpit, the bugs turned it into a thiol (硫醇)—a previously discovered odour from armpits that is 8 to onion.
"The more sulphur (硫) precursor we 9 , the more intense was the malodour (难闻的 气味，恶臭)," says Starkenmann, whose team's results appear in Chemical Senses. Bacterial enzymes (酶) turn the otherwise odourless precursor 10 the malodour.
The men, meanwhile, had relatively high levels of an odourless fatty acid which turned into a cheesy odour when 11 to the same types of bacteria. The balance of oniony to cheesy precursors in women's sweat made it smell worse than men's as rated by independent smell assessors.
Nest; the team hope to develop new ingredients for deodorants that 12 the smells. "We could make inhibitors that neutralize the precursors, or block the bacterial enzymes that do the conversion," says Starkenmann.
Some researchers are skeptical that gender is the main deciding factor, 13 that the patterns found in Swiss volunteers might not apply to other populations with different diets and genetic background. "Other factors 14 what you eat, what you wash with, what you wear and what genes you 15 ," says Tim Jacob of Cardiff University in the U.K. 
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