[解析] “最近你和他谈过话吗?”“lately”和“recently”都有“最近”的意思。如：I've only recently started learning French. 我只是最近才开始学法语的。
2. While we don't agree, we continue to be friends.
A.Because
B.Where
C.Although
D.Whatever
A B C D
C
[解析] “虽然我们意见不一致，但是我们依然是朋友。”“while”在这个句子中引导的是一个让步从句，所起的作用是跟“although”一样的。如：While I understand what you say, I can't agree with you. 尽管我能理解你所说的，但却无法赞同。
3. In judging our work you should take into consideration the fact that we have been very busy recently.
A.thought
B.account
C.mind
D.brain
A B C D
B
[解析] “当评价工作时，你应该考虑到我们最近非常忙这一事实。”“take into consideration”和“take into account”都是“考虑”的意思，是固定的搭配。如：Your teacher will take your recent illness into consideration when they mark your exams. 你的几位老师评定考试成绩时，会考虑你最近生病了这一情况。
4. You must shine your shoes.
A.polish
B.clear
C.wash
D.mend
A B C D
A
[解析] “你应该把鞋擦亮。”“polish”和“shine”都有“擦亮”的意思。如：He polished up the old copper coins. 他把古铜币擦亮。
5. The policeman wrote down all the particulars of the accident.
A.secrets
B.details
C.benefits
D.words
A B C D
B
[解析] “这个警察记下了事故所有的细节。”“particular”是“细节”的意思。“detail”也是“细节”的意思。如：Everything in her story is correct down to the smallest detail. 她所讲述的一切都正确无误，连最小的细节也是如此。
6. I'm content with the way the campaign has gone.
Encouraging early reading skills can build a path to a lifelong (终身的) love of reading and can help your child get a head start in school. While reading to your child is still the most important thing you can do to build reading skills, there are many techniques that can help. Make reading fun. Play games with your child as you read. Many traditional children's games can be adapted to encourage reading skill. While reading or during play, tell your child, "I spy with my little eye, something that begins with the letter b. "Help the child find something on the page or in the room that begins with that letter. For example, "I see a barn". This can also be used to teach beginning letter sounds. "I spy with my little eye, something that begins with the sounds. "Help the child find a word that begins with the "s" sound. In this variation on the popular game, instruct the child that, "Simon says, point to something that starts with the letter ' n. ' "The child can then find an object in the room or a body part, such as the nose, that starts with the letter presented. This can also be used to teach beginning sounds. Make a game out of rhyming (押韵) words by making up silly words to rhyme with the child's name or favorite toys. This sets the stage for rhyming real words by showing the child the similarities of sounds. As the child masters making up the words, begin rhyming real words to one another. Tips to raise a successful reader. Put books in places where the child plays. If books are easily accessible, children are more likely to pick them up. Let children "read to you" by looking at pictures. Making up stories to go along with illustrations helps children discover how words relate to pictures. Take books along on trips or even short visits to the doctor's office or grocery store. Have children help you shop. Reading grocery lists and looking for specific items helps build sight vocabulary.
1. A good reading habit can help your child do well at school.
1 Smoke is clouding our view of global warming, protecting the planet from perhaps three quarters of the greenhouse (温室) effect. That might sound like good news, but experts say that as the cover diminishes in coming decades, we are facing a dramatic increase of warming that could be two or even three times as great as official best guesses. 2 This was the dramatic conclusion reached last week at a workshop in Dahlem, Berlin, where top atmospheric scientists got together, including Nobel prize winner Paul Crutzen and Swedish scientist Bert Bolin, former chairman of the UN'S Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). 3 IPCC scientists have suspected for a decade that aerosols (浮质) of smoke and other particles from burning rainforest, crop waste and fossil fuels are blocking sunlight and counteracting the warming effect of carbon dioxide (二氧化物) emissions. Until now, they reckoned that aerosols reduced greenhouse warming by perhaps a quarter, cutting increases by 0.2℃. So the 0.6℃ of warming over the past century would have been 0.8℃ without aerosols. 4 But the Berlin workshop concluded that the real figure is even higher—aerosols may have reduced global warming by as much as three-quarters, cutting increases by 1.8℃. If so, the good news is that aerosols have prevented the world getting almost two degrees warmer than it is now. But the bad news is that the climate system is much more sensitive to greenhouse gases than previously guessed. 5 As those gases are expected to continue accumulating in the atmosphere while aerosols stabilize or fall, that means "dramatic consequences for estimates of future climate change", the scientists agreed in a draft report from the workshop. A. Atmospheric Scientists B. The Calculations Made at the Berlin Workshop C. The Previous Calculations of the Effect of Aerosols D. The Scientists' Agreement E. The Authoritative Conclusion F. Greenhouse Gases
A. will influence future climate change B. was somewhat surprising C. will rise rapidly D. was known to US all E. was much higher than had been expected F. will drop dramatically
5. When the cover diminishes in the coming decades, temperature ______.
It was a normal summer night. Humidity (湿气) hung in the thick air. I couldn't go to sleep, partly because of my cold and partly because of my expectations for the next day. My mum had said that tomorrow was going to be a surprise. Sweat stuck to my aching body. Finally, gathered enough strength to sit up. I looked out of my small window into the night. There was a big bright moon hanging in the sky, giving off a magic light. I couldn't stand the pressure anymore, so I did what I always do to make myself feel better. I went to the bathroom and picked up my toothbrush and toothpaste. I cleaned my teeth as if there was no tomorrow. Back and forth, up and down. Then I walked downstairs to look for some signs of movement, some life. Gladiator, my cat, frightened me as he meowed (喵喵地唱出) his sad song. He was on the old orange couch (长沙发), sitting up on his front legs, waiting for something to happen. He looked at me as if to say "I'm lonely, pet me. I need a good hug (紧抱)."Even the couch begged me to sit on it. In one movement I settled down onto the soft couch. This couch represented my parents' marriage, my birth, and hundreds of other little events. As I held Gladiator, my heart started beating heavily. My mind was flooded with questions: What's life? Am I really alive? Are you listening to me? Every time I moved my hand down Gladiator's body, I had a new thought; each touch sang a different song. I forgot all about the heat and the next day's surprise. The atmosphere was so full of warmth and silence that I sank into its alms. Falling asleep with the big cat in my arms, I felt all my worries slowly move away.
1. The author of the passage could not go to sleep partly because ______.
Even ancient Egypt's mighty pyramid (金字塔) builders were powerless in the face of the famine (饥荒) that helped bring down their civilization around 2180 B.C. Now evidence collected from mud deposited by the River Nile suggests that a shift in climate thousands of kilometers to the south was ultimately to blame—and the same or worse could happen today. The ancient Egyptians depended on the Nile's annual floods to irrigate their crops. But any change in climate that pushed the African monsoons (季风) southwards out of Ethiopia would have reduced these floods. Declining rains in the Ethiopian highlands would have meant fewer plants to stabilize the soil. When rain did fall it would have washed large amounts of soil into the Blue Nile and into Egypt, along with sediment (沉积) from the White Nile. Blue Nile mud has a different isotope (同位素) signature from that of the white Nile, so by analyzing isotope differences in mud deposited in the Nile Delta, Michael Krom of Leeds University worked out what proportion of sediment came from each branch of the river. Krom reasons that during periods of drought, the amount of Blue Nile mud in the river would he relatively high. He found that one of these periods, from 4500 to 4200 years ago, immediately came before the fall of the Egypt's old Kingdom. The weakened waters would have been disaster for the Egyptians. "Changes that affect food supply don't have to be very large to have a ripple (波浪) effect in societies, "says Bill Ryan of the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory in New York. Similar events today could be even more devastating, says team member Daniel Stanley, A scientist from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D. C. "Anything humans do to shift the climate belts would have an even worse effect along the Nile system today because the populations have increased dramatically. "
1. Why does the author mention "Egypt's mighty pyramid builders"?
A.Because they once worked miracles
B.Because they were well-built
C.Because they were actually very weak
D.Because even they were unable to rescue their civilization
2. Which of the following factors was ultimately responsible for bringing down the civilization of ancient Egypt?
A.Change of climate
B.Corruption
C.Flood
D.Population growth
A B C D
A
[解析] 这道题问的是：“下面列出的几种因素中哪一种因素是造成古埃及文明毁灭的根本性因素?”A说的是：“气候变化。”第1段中有这样一个句子：“…a shift in climate…was ultimately to blame…”最终归咎于气候的变化。在第一题的题解中，我们提到了“饥荒”与“古埃及文明毁灭”的关系。但“饥荒”是表层的因素，“气候的变化”才是古埃及文明毁灭的深层的因素。因此，A是正确的答案。B：腐败。C：水灾。D：人口增长。
3. Which of the following statements is true?
A.The White Nile is the trunk of the River Nile.
B.The White Nile is the trunk of the Blue Nile.
C.The White Nile is a branch of the Blue Nile.
D.The White Nile is a branch of the River Nile.
A B C D
D
[解析] 这道题问的是：“下列出哪项陈述是正确的?”D说的是：“白尼罗河是尼罗河的支流。”第4段中的最后一句话是这么说的：“…worked out what 'proportion of sediment came from each branch ofthe river…”计算出了来自河的每条支流的沉积物的比例。这里的“河”是指“尼罗河”，“每条支流”回指上文所说的“青尼罗河”和“白尼罗河”。因此，D是正确的答案。A：“白尼罗河是尼罗河的干流。”B：“白尼罗河是青尼罗河的干流。”C：“白尼罗河是青尼罗河的支流”。显然，这些都不是正确答案。
4. According to Krom, the Egypt's old Kingdom fell ______.
A.immediately after a period of drought
B.immediately after a period of flood
C.just before a drought struck
D.just before a flood struck
A B C D
A
[解析] 这道题问的是：“根据Krom的说法，古埃及王朝的毁灭发生在什么时候?”A说的是：“就在一个时期的干旱之后。”第5段有这么一个句子：“…one of these periods…immediately came before the fall of the Egypt's Old Kingdom. ”其中的一个时期……就发生在古埃及王国毁灭之前。可以看出，A应该是正确的答案。B：“就在一个时期的水灾之后。”C：“就在遇到一次旱灾之前。”D：“就在遇到一次水灾之前。”
5. The word "devastating" in the last paragraph could be best replaced by ______.
When it comes to translating basic research into industrial success, few nations can match Germany. Since the 1940s, the nation's vast industrial base has been fed with a constant stream of new ideas and expertise from science. And though German prosperity (繁荣) has faltered (衰退) over the past decade because of the huge cost of unifying east and west as well as the global economic decline, it still has an enviable (令人羡慕的) record for turning ideas into profit. Much of the reason for that success is the Fraunhofer Society, a network of research institutes that exists solely to solve industrial problems and create sought-after technologies. But today the Fraunhofer institutes have competition. Universities are taking an ever larger role in technology transfer, and technology parks are springing up all over. These efforts are being complemented by the federal programs for pumping money into start-up companies. Such a strategy may sound like a recipe for economic success, but it is not without its critics. These people worry that favoring applied research will mean neglecting basic science, eventually starving industry of fresh ideas. Every scientist starts thinking like an entrepreneur (企业家), the argument goes, then the traditional principles of university research being curiosity-driven, free and widely available will suffer. Others claim that many of the programs to promote technology transfer are a waste of money because half the small businesses that are promoted are bound to go bankrupt within a few years. While this debate continues, new ideas flow at a steady rate from Germany's research networks, which bear famous names such as Helmholtz, Max Planck and Leibniz. Yet it is the fourth network, the Fraunhofer Society that plays the greatest role in technology transfer. Founded in 1949, the Fraunhofer Society is now Europe's largest organization for applied technology, and has 59 institutes employing 12,000 people. It continues to grow. Last year it swallowed up the Heinrich Hertz Institute for Communication Technology in Berlin. Today, there are even Fraunhofers in the US and Asia.
1. What factor can be attributed to German prosperity?
A.Technology transfer
B.Good management
C.Hard work
D.Fierce competition
A B C D
A
[解析] 答案在第1段可以找到，该段的最后一句话“it still has all enviable record for turning ideas into profit”是该段的总结，明确指出了德国的繁荣归功于技术的转换。
2. Which of the following is NOT true of traditional university research?
A.It is free
B.It is profit-driven
C.It is widely available
D.It is curiosity-driven
A B C D
B
[解析] 答案可以在第3段里找到，这一段里有这样一句话：“traditional principles of university research being curiosity—driven，free and widely available will suffer”，传统的大学科研原则有三个特点，唯独没有profit. driven，即受利益驱动。
3. The Fraunhofer Society is the largest organization for applied technology in ______.
A.Asia
B.USA
C.Europe
D.Africa
A B C D
C
[解析] 答案在最后一段里。
4. When was the Fraunhofer Society founded?
A.In 1940
B.Last year
C.After the unification
D.In 1949
A B C D
D
[解析] 答案在最后一段的第1句话里。
5. The word "expertise" in line 3 could be best replaced by ______.
Shortly after I began a career in business, I learned that Carl Weatherup, president of PepsiCo (百事可乐公司), was speaking at the University of Colorado. I tracked down the person handling his schedule and managed to get myself an appointment. 1 So there I was sitting outside the university's auditorium, waiting for the president of PepsiCo. I could hear him talking to the students and talking, and talking. 2 . He was now five minutes over, which dropped my time with him down to 10 minutes, decision time. I wrote a note on the back of my business card, reminding him that he had a meeting. "You have a meeting with Jeff Hoye at 2:30 pm. "I took a deep breath, pushed open the doors of the auditorium and walked straight up the middle aisle (过道) toward him as he talked. Mr. Weatherup stopped. 3 . Just before I reached the door, I heard him tell the group that he was running late. He thanked them for their attention, wished them luck and walked out to where I was now sitting, holding my breath. He looked at the card and then at me. "Let me guess. "he said. "You're Jeff. "He" smiled. 4 . He spent the next 30 minutes offering me his time, some wonderful stories that I still use, and an invitation to visit him and his group in New York. But what he gave me that I value the most was the encouragement to continue to do as I had done. 5 . When things need to happen, you either have the nerve to act or you don't. A. I began breathing again and we grabbed (霸占) an office right there at school and closed the door. B. As I sat listening to him, I knew that I could trust him, and that he deserved every bit of loyalty I could give to him. C. I became alarmed: his talk wasn't ending when it should have. D. He said that it took nerve for me to interrupt him, and that nerve was the key to success in the business world. E. I was told, however, that he was on a tight schedule and only had 15 minutes available after his talk to the business class. F. I handed him the card then I turned and walked out the way I came.
第6部分：完形填空 阅读下面的短文，文中有15处空白，每处空白给出4个选项，请根据短文的内容从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案。 American public education has changed numbers of American parents and teachers are in recent years. One change is that increasing starting independent public schools 1 charter schools (特许学校). In 1991, there were no charter schools in the United States. Today, more than 2,300 charter schools 2 in 34 states and the District of Columbia. 575,000 students 3 these schools. The students are from 5 years of age through 18 or older. A charter school is 4 by groups of parents, teachers and community (社区) members. It is similar in some ways 5 a traditional public school. It receives tax money to operate just as other public schools do. The 6 it receives depends on the number of students. The charter school must prove to local or state governments that its students are learning. These governments 7 the school with the agreement, or charter that permits it to operate. Unlike a traditional public school, 8 , the charter school does not have to obey most laws governing public schools. Local, state or federal governments cannot tell it what 9 . Each school can choose its own goals and decide the ways it wants to 10 those goals. Class sizes usually are, smaller than in many traditional public schools. Many students and parents say 11 in charter schools can be more creative. However, state education agencies, local education-governing committees and unions often 12 charter schools. They say these schools may receive money badly 13 by traditional public schools. Experts say some charter schools are doing well while others are struggling. Congress provided 200 million dollars for 14 charter schools in the 2002 federal budget (预算). But, often the schools say they lack enough money for their 15 . Many also lack needed space.
1.
A.called
B.asked
C.known
D.said
A B C D
A
[解析] called是过去分词作后置定语表示被动，这里是说，那些学校被叫做特许学校。asked，known，said不仅意思不合适，也不符合这里的语法要求：如果硬要用asked修饰public schools，也得说，public schools asked to do sth. ；在这里的语境中，known要与as连用；said要与to be连用。
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