BThree years ago, five parrots were set free in a wild place of Arizona, thousands of miles from the Channel Islands in Jersey where they had been looked after by zookeepers. No evolutionary strategies informed them how to behave in this new landscape of
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Three years ago, five parrots were set free in a wild place of Arizona, thousands of miles from the Channel Islands in Jersey where they had been looked after by zookeepers. No evolutionary strategies informed them how to behave in this new landscape of mountainous pine forest unoccupied by their kind for 50 years. To the researchers’ surprise, they failed to make contact with a group of wild parrots imported from Mexico and set free at the same time. Within 24 hours the reintroducing ended in failure, and the poor birds were back in cages, on their way to the safety of the Arizona reintroduction programme.
Ever since then, the programme has enjoyed great success, mainly because the birds now being set free are Mexican birds illegally caught in the wild, confiscated (没收) on arrival north of the border, and raised by their parents in the safety of the programme. The experience shows how little we know about the behaviour and psychology(心理) of parrots, as Peter Bennett, a bird researcher, points out: “Reintroducing species of high intelligence like parrots is a lot more difficult. People like parrots, always treating them as nothing more than pets or valuable ‘collectables’.”
Now that many species of parrot are in immediate danger of dying out, biologists are working together to study the natural history and the behaviour of this family of birds. Last year was an important turning point: conservationists founded the World Parrot Trust, based at Hayle in Cornwall, to support research into both wild and caged birds.
Research on parrots is vital for two reasons. First, as the Arizona programme showed, when reintroducing parrots to the wild, we need to be aware of what the birds must know if they are to survive in their natural home. We also need to learn more about the needs of parrots kept as pets, particularly as the Trust’s campaign does not attempt to discourage the practice, but rather urges people who buy parrots as pets to choose birds raised by humans.
55. What do we know about the area where the five parrots were reintroduced?
A. Its landscape is new to parrots pf their kind.
B. It used to be home to parrots of their kind.
C. It is close to where they had been kept.
D. Pine trees were planted to attract birds.
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第1题：
Passage Three
The war had begun, and George had joined the air force. He wanted to be a pilot and after some months he managed to get to the air force training school, where they taught pilots to fly'.
There, the first thing that new students had to do was to be taken up in a plane by an experienced pi lot, to give them some ideas what it felt like. Even those who had traveled as passengers in commercial (商业的 ) airline planes before found it strange to be in the cockpit (驾驶舱)of a small fighter plane, and most of the students felt nervous.
The officer who had to take the students up for their first flight allowed them to fly the plane for a few seconds if' they wanted to and if they were not too frightened to try, but be was always ready to take over as soon as the plane started to do dangerous things.
George was one of those who took over the controls of the plane when he went up in it for the first time, and after the officer had taken them [Yom him again. George thought that he had better ask a few questions to show how interested he was and how much he wanted to learn to fly. There were a number of instruments (仪表) in front of him, so he chose one and asked the officer what it was. The officer looked at him strangely for a moment and then answered, "That is the clock."
44. George went to the air torte training school because he wanted ______.
A. to fight the war
B. to fly
C. to be pilot
D. to be a passenger
正确答案：C44．答案为C 此考题为细节题。根据文章第1段第2句He wanted to be a pilot and after some months he managed to get to the air force training school，可以断定C正确。
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第2题：
I first heard this story _____ from a girl I had met in New York's Greenwich Village.
A. since a few years
B. a few years before
C. for a few years
D. a few years ago
参考答案： D
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第3题：
She ______ soon after dark and arrived home an hour later.
A、had set out
B、set out
C、have set out
D、had been set out
参考答案：B
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第4题：
材料：
Condor a catamaran vessel operating between the Channel Islands and France．The vessel has two main engines in each hull．All propulsion units are duplicated，with each set independent from the other．
Shortly after leaving St Helier，Jersey，with 31 passengers and 18 crew，the fire alarm sounded indicating a fire in the starboard engine room．This was confirmed by the closed circuit television surveillance system which showed flames in the vicinity of the starboard outer main engine．The vessel was immediately stopped，all machinery in the starboard engine room was stopped and the fuel supplies shut down．Jersey Radio was informed of the situation two minutes after the alarm sounded. After closing all ventilation openings and accounting for all personnel，halon fire smothering gas was released into the starboard engine room．This was done five minutes after the fire alarm first sounded. The crew maintained boundary cooling and intermittently operated the sprinkler system to the affected space．
Twenty minutes after the alarm sounded the situation was considered to be under control．Using the port main engines the vessel returned to St Helier where assistance was available from shore based emergency services．
问题：
Condor has two ________ main engines．
A.combined
B.independent
C.couple
D.double
The fire accident happened in ________．A.both the engine rooms
B.neither engine rooms
C.the port engine room
D.the starboard engine room
The fire was mainly extinguished with ________．A.water
B.chemical agent
C.foam
D.powder
It can be concluded that ________．A.no officials from any authority know the accident after it happened
B.some officials ashore must have learnt the accident at very beginning
C.there must be casualties even they were not mentioned in the report
D.fire is not dangerous on board vessel
请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析，谢谢！
问题 1 答案解析：B
问题 2 答案解析：D
问题 3 答案解析：B
问题 4 答案解析：B
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第5题：
The river water was（ ）from its old course into a new channel where they were building the dam.A.turned
B.switched
C.shifted
D.diverted答案：D解析：句意：在修筑这个水坝时，江水被改道进入新的水道。A.turn是常用词，词义较多，有转动，旋转，转方向，改变等意思；B.switch也有“转”之意，但它是指转轨，转变之意，如：to switch the conversation改变谈话内容；C.shift“转动，转换”，如：shift a burden from one shoulder to the other把担子从一个肩上换到另一个肩上；河流、公路等的“改道”通常用divert。 -
第6题：
This area has been free from Foot - and - Mouth Disease ( ) two years.
A. for B. in
C. after D. before答案：A解析： -
第7题：
共用题干
Mau Piailug,Ocean Navigator
Mau sailed from Hawaii to Tahiti using traditional methods.
In early 1976,Mau Piailug,a fisherman,led an expedition in which he sailed a traditional Polynesian boat
across 2,500 miles of ocean from Hawaii to Tahiti.The Polynesian Voyaging Society had organised the expe-
dition. Its purpose was to find out if seafarers（海员）in the distant past could have found their way from one
island to the other without navigational instruments,or whether the islands had been populated by accident.
At the time,Mau was the only man alive who knew how to navigate just by observing the stars,the wind and
the sea.
He had never before sailed to Tahiti,which was a long way to the south.However,he understood how the
wind and the sea behave around islands,so he was confident he could find his way.The voyage took him and
his crew a month to complete and he did it without a compass or charts.
His grandfather began the task of teaching him how to navigate when he was still a baby.He showed him
pools of water on the beach to teach him how the behaviour of the waves and wind changed in different
places.Later,Mau used a circle of stones to memorise the positions of the stars.Each stone was laid out in
the sand to represent a star.
The voyage proved that Hawaii's first inhabitants came in small boats and navigated by reading the sea
and the stars.Mau himself became a keen teacher,passing on his traditional secrets to people of other cul-
tures so that his knowledge would not be lost.He explained the positions of the stars to his students,but he
allowed them to write things down because he knew they would never be able to rememnber everything as he
had done.Mau used stones to memorise where the stars were situated in the sky.
A:Right
B:Wrong
C:Not mentioned答案：A解析：文章第一段最后一句话“At the time,Mau was the only man alive who knew how to navi- gate just by observing the stars , the wind and the sea"，可知Mau是他那个时代唯一会通过观察星 座的位置，风向和海水变化等信息来为自己导航的人。故选A。
文章第二段第一句话提到“He had never before sailed to Tahiti"，可知他以前从未到过 Tahiti。故选B。
由文章第二段最后一句话“The voyage took him and his crew a month to complete and he did it without a compass or charts"，可知他在航海过程中没有用到指南针或地图，但没有提到他 是否能买得起指南针或地图。故选C。
由文章第三段第一句话“His grandfather began the task of teaching him how to navigate when he was still a baby"，可知在Mau孩童时期，他的祖父就开始教他航海的知识了。故选A。
由文章第三段倒数第二句话“Mau used a circle of stones to memories the positions of the stars"，可知答案为A。
文章最后一段中提到夏威夷的第一批居住者是乘坐小舟，通过观察海水和星星到达那 里的，没有提及他们是否能阅读书写。故选C。
文章最后一段中指出，Mau成为老师把传统的航海知识传授给学生，向学生们讲述星座位置的知识，并且允许他们一记录下来，因为他知道他的学生们永远不可能像他一样记住所有的 航海知识。故选B。 -
第8题：
A customer has 5 older POWER5 systems and they want to consolidate them onto a POWER6 system. What information is important to analyze when deciding how to design the new machine using the System Planning Tool?（）
- A、 vmstat and iostat data from the older machines
- B、 The number of CPUs that were installed in the original machines
- C、 Data from Workload Estimator (WLE) and IBM Performance Management (PM)
- D、 Performance data that is collected from the new system after it has been put into production
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第9题：
单选题A customer has 5 older POWER5 systems and they want to consolidate them onto a POWER6 system. What information is important to analyze when deciding how to design the new machine using the System Planning Tool?（）Avmstat and iostat data from the older machines
BThe number of CPUs that were installed in the original machines
CData from Workload Estimator (WLE) and IBM Performance Management (PM)
DPerformance data that is collected from the new system after it has been put into production
正确答案： A解析： 暂无解析 -
第10题：
单选题Which of the following about the New Jersey study is TRUE?AThere is no evidence to support the New Jersey study.
BNew Jersey has created a new Head Start to help disadvantaged kids.
CSending children to school at the age of four is not going to help.
DTwo years of pre-kindergarten were better than one.
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第11题：
问答题Practice 3 Science, in practice, depends far less on the experiments it prepares than on the preparedness of the minds of the men who watch the experiments. Sir Isaac Newton supposedly discovered gravity through the fall of an apple. Apples had been falling in many places for centuries and thousands of people had seen them fall. But Newton for years had been curious about the cause of the orbital motion of the moon and planets. What kept them in place? Why didn’t they fall out of the sky? The fact that the apple fell down toward the earth and not up into the tree answered the question he had been asking himself about those larger fruits of the heavens, the moon and the planets.正确答案：
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在实践中,科学与其说依靠事先准备的实验,不如说依靠实验观察者有所准备的头脑。艾萨克·牛顿爵士通过对苹果落地进行推理发现了重力。多少世纪以来,苹果一直在许多地方落到地面,成千上万个人看到苹果落地。而牛顿多年来一直对月球和行星绕轨道运行的起因感到好奇。是什么力量使得它们处于现在的位置呢?它们为什么不落到天空之外呢?苹果向下落到地上而不是向上飞到树上这一事实回答了牛顿长期以来对月球和行星所存有的疑问。月球和行星是苍天中更大的果实。解析： 暂无解析 -
第12题：
问答题Practice 2Transformation of St Kilda Seventy-five years ago, the residents of a group of islands off the northwest coast of Scotland packed up and left for good. Their home—St Kilda—now has World Heritage status but with the departure of the St Kildans in August 1930, a way of life that had existed for thousands of years, vanished. St Kilda was years for years known as the most remote settlement in the entire British Empire, but actually it is not so far away—around 200 km west of the nearest point of the Scottish mainland. Seventy-five years ago, at the end of August 1930, the last 36 islanders banked up their turf fires, opened their Bibles at Exodus, put some oats on the table, then left forever, bringing to an end a habitation and a way of life that stretched back at least two thousand years. St Kilda is an archipelago of sea stacks, skerries and four islands, of which only one, Hirta, was permanently inhabited. It was remote in ways other than geography. The people, who never numbered more than a couple of hundred, spoke not English but a distinctive form of Gaelic. Their economy, their whole culture, revolved round seabirds—fulmars, gannets and puffins. They ate them and exchanged their feathers and precious oil for goods such as tea and sugar from the mainland. In the Victorian era, at the height of Britain’s imperial adventure, this self-sufficient life held a strange fascination. St Kilda became a fashionable tourist destination and steamers regularly dropped anchor in Village Bay. But the visitors could not comprehend the St Kildans they gawped at. There is an astonishing recording in the BBC’s archives of an islander saying that her mother, in payment for a bale of tweed which had taken all winter to weave, was given an orange. She didn’t know what it was. There had been worse traumas: St Kilda’s graveyard is one of the most heartrending places. It is full of tiny hummocks, where infants are buried. Newborn babies were all anointed where the cord had been cut with a concoction of fulmar oil, dung and earth and 8 out of 10 of them died of neonatal tetanus. The minister finally put a stop to this in 1891 and after that the babies lived, but it was too late. Add to this grief, emigration and harsh religion and it’s no wonder that the St Kildans lost heart. By the 1920s there were no longer enough people to do all the work. In 1930 they planted no crops and petitioned the government to take them off the island. St Kilda is now owned by the National Trust for Scotland. There are tow National Trust wardens and in the summer volunteer work parties come to maintain the buildings. There’s a resident archaeologist. A century on St Kilda has become a chic destination once again. There were 15,000 visitors last year. Recently one of the wardens found the first piece of litter; a plastic water bottle wedged between the stones of a wall.正确答案： 参考译文
圣基尔达的变迁 75年前,苏格兰西北部沿海的一个群岛上的一群居民整理好行囊永远地离开了。他们的故乡——圣基尔达如今已经成为世界遗产。然而,在1930年8月随着圣基尔达人的离去,一种已经存在了数千年的生活方式也随之消散。数年来圣基尔达被看作是整个大不列颠帝国最偏远的殖民地,但事实上它也并没有那么远——最近的地方离苏格兰大陆西部只有200公里。
75年前,在1930年8月底,最后的36名岛上的居民把草皮堆积生火,他们把《圣经》翻到《出埃及记》这一部分,在桌子上摆上几碗麦片粥,然后永远地离开了,就此结束了一种延续了至少有两千多年的居住和生活方式。
圣基尔达是由海浪蚀礁、岩岛和四个岛屿组成的群岛,其中只有海尔塔岛上有永久居民。从地理位置上来看,这个地方并不算偏远。岛上的居民从没有超过几百人,他们不说英语,而说一种与众不同的盖尔语。他们的经济,他们的整个文化,都围绕着海鸟——管鼻鹱、塘鹅和角嘴海雀。他们以此为食,并用它们的羽毛和珍贵的油和大陆交换茶叶、糖等商品。
在维多利亚时期,在英帝国扩张的鼎盛时期,这种自给自足的生活方式独具魅力。圣基尔达成为一个时髦的旅游胜地,汽船经常在乡村海湾这个地方停留。但是参观者瞪着眼睛看圣基尔达人却并不能理解他们。在BBC的档案里有一份惊人的记录:一位岛上的居民说,她母亲用花了一个冬天织成的斜纹布换了一个橙子,而她并不知道橙子是什么。
还有更严重的创伤:圣基尔达的墓地是世界上最断人心肠的墓地。这里布满了小小的圆丘,里面埋着新生的婴儿。新生儿在脐带被剪断时都被涂上了一种用管鼻鹱油、粪便以及泥巴混成的混合物。10个孩子中有8个死于新生儿破伤风。l892年大臣终于废除了这种习俗。从那以后,婴儿们活了下来,但也为时太晚了。
人口的向外迁移和苛刻的宗教又雪上加霜,这也难怪圣基尔达人心灰意冷。20世纪20年代甚至连劳动力都不够了。在1930年他们不再种玉米,并请求政府把他们迁离这个岛屿。
现在圣基尔达由苏格兰国家托管局管理,有两个国家托管局的看护人。夏天的时候,有志愿者来这里对建筑进行维修。还有一个常驻于此的考古学家。
一百年以后圣基尔达又再次成为了一个别致的去处。去年有15,000名游客。最近其中的一位看护人发现了第一片垃圾:石墙缝里夹着的一只塑料水瓶。解析： 暂无解析 -
第13题：
--- __________?
--- Two years ago.
A. Where did he go
B. How long has he been in America
C. When did he go to America
参考答案：C
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第14题：
A few years ago all of them were classed ____ plants.
A: for
B: as
C: to
D: into
参考答案：B
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第15题：
I first met Lisa three years ago when we ________ at a radio station together.
A.have worked B.had been working C.were working D.had worked
正确答案：C
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第16题：
40 years ago the idea of disabled people doing sport was never heard of. But when the annual games for the disabled were started at Stoke Mandeville, England in 1948 by Sir Ludwig Guttmann, the situation began to change.
Sir Ludwig Guttmann, who had been driven to England in 1939 from Nazi Germany, had
been asked by the British government to set up an injuries center at Stoke Mandeville Hospital near London. His ideas about treating injuries included sport for the disabled.
In the first games just two teams of injured soldiers took part. The next year, 1949, five teams took part. From those beginnings, things have developed fast. Teams now come from abroad to Stoke Mandeville every year. In 1960 the first Olympics for the Disabled were held in Rome, in the same place as the normal Olympic Games. Now, every four years the Olympic Games for the Disabled are held, if possible, in the same place as the normal Olympic Games, although they are organized separately. In other years Games for the Disabled are still held at Stoke Mandeville. In the 1984 wheelchair Olympic Games, 1064 wheelchair athletes from about 40 countries took part.
Unfortunately, they were held at Stoke Mandeville and not in Los Angeles, along with the other Olympics.
TheGameshavebeenagreatsuccessinpromotinginternationalfriendshipandunderstanding, and in proving that being disabled does not mean you can't enjoy sport. One small source of disappointment for those who organize and take part in the games, however, has been the unwillingness of the International Olympic Committee to include disabled events at Olympic Games for the able-bodied. Perhaps a few more years are still needed to convince those fortunate enough not to be disabled that their disabled fellow athletes should not be excluded.
Besides Stoke Mandeville, surely the games for the disabled were once held in__________.A.New York
B.London
C.Rome
D.Los Angeles答案：C解析：由第三段“In l960 the fimt Olympics for the Disabled were held in Rome”可知，第一届残奥会是在罗马举行，故选C。 -
第17题：
共用题干
第三篇
The Body Thieves
In the early nineteenth century in Britain,many improvements were being made in the
world of medicine.Doctors and surgeons were becoming more knowledgeable about the
human body.Illnesses that had been fatal a few years before were now curable.However,
surgeons had one problem.They needed dead bodies to cut up,or dissect（解剖）.This
was the only way that they could learn about the flesh and bones inside the body,and the
only way to teach new surgeons to carry out operations.
The job of finding these dead bodies was carried out by an unpleasant group of people
called "body snatchers". They went into graveyards（墓地）at night and, using wooden
shovels to make less noise,dug up any recently buried bodies.Then they took the bodies
to the medical schools and sold them.A body could be sold for between ￡5 and ￡10,
which was a lot of money at that time.The doctors who paid the body snatchers had an
agreement with them一they never asked any questions.They did not desire to know where
the bodies came from,as long as they kept arriving.
The most famous of these body snatchers were two men from Edinburgh called William
Burke and Wil!iam Hare.Burke and Hare were different because they did not」ust dig up
bodies from graveyards.They got greedy and thought of an easier way to find bodies.
Instead of digging them up,they killed the poorer guests in Hare's small hotel.Dr Knox,
the respected surgeon they worked for,never asked why all the bodies they brought him
had been strangled（勒死）.
For many years Burke and Hare were not caught because,unsurprisingly,the bodies
of their victims were never found by the police.They were eventually arrested and put on
trial in 1829.The judge showed mercy to Hare and he was released but Burke was found
guilty and his punishment was to be hanged.Appropriately,his body was given to the
medical school and he ended up on the dissecting table,just like his victims.In one small
way，justice was done.
Now,over 1 50 years later,surgeons do not need the help of criminals to learn their
skills.However,the science of surgery could not have developed without their rather
gruesome（令人毛骨惊然的）help.The bodies of Burke's and Hare's victims couldn't be found by the police because
A: they had been stolen.
B:they had been strangled.
C: they had been dissected.
D:they had been buried.答案：C解析： -
第18题：
共用题干
Mau Piailug,Ocean Navigator
Mau sailed from Hawaii to Tahiti using traditional methods.
In early 1976,Mau Piailug,a fisherman,led an expedition in which he sailed a tradi-tional Polynesian boat across 2,500 miles of ocean from Hawaii to Tahiti.The Polynesian Voyaging Society had organised the expedition.Its purpose was to find out if seafarers（海员） in the distant past could have found their way from one island to the other without naviga-tional instruments,or whether the islands had been populated by accident.At the time,Mau was the only man alive who knew how to navigate just by observing the stars,the wind and the sea.
He had never before sailed to Tahiti,which was a long way to the south.However,he understood how the wind and the sea behave around islands,so he was confident he could find his way.The voyage took him and his crew a month to complete and he did it without a compass or charts.
His grandfather began the task of teaching him how to navigate when he was still a baby.He showed him pools of water on the beach to teach him how the behaviour of the waves and wind changed in different place.Later,Mau used a circle of stones to memorise the positions of the stars.Each stone was laid out in the sand to represent a star.
The voyage proved that Hawaii's first inhabitants came in small boats and navigated by reading the sea and the stars.Mau himself became a keen teacher,passing on his traditional secrets to people of other cultures so that his knowledge would not be lost.He explained the positions of the stars to his students,but he allowed them to write things down because he knew they would never be able to remember everything as he had done.Mau used stones to memorise where the stars were situated in the sky.
A:Right
B:Wrong
C:Not mentioned答案：A解析：题干意为“玛乌航行的时候，他有独特的航行技术。”关键词是unique navi-gational skills。依据此关键词组，可在文中第一段最后一句找到相关叙述：“At the time, Mau was the only man alive who knew how to navigate just by observing the stars,the wind and the sea.”（在那时，玛乌是在世的人中唯一一个仅仅通过观察星星、风和海洋来远航的人。）由此可知，当时来说，玛乌的航行技术的确是独特的，故此题说法为“正确”的。
题干意为“玛乌很熟悉塔希提岛周围的海洋。”关键词是Tahiti。依据此关键词，可在文中第二段前两句找到相关叙述：“He had never before sailed to Tahiti, which was a long way to the south.However,he understood how the wind and the sea behave around islands, so he was confident he could find his way.”（他从来没有航行到过塔希提岛，从塔希提岛到南方是一段很长的路程。然而他知道岛周围的风和海洋是怎么活动的，所以他自信可以找到路。）由此可知，虽然玛乌没有去过这个岛，但是他很熟悉海洋，故此题说法是“正确”的。
题干意为“玛乌买不起罗盘和图表。”关键词是compass和charts。依据关键词，可在文中第二段最后一句找到相关叙述：“The voyage took him and his crew a month to complete and he did it without a compass or charts.”（这次航行要花费他和船员们一个月的时间，而且他们航行的时候没有罗盘和图表。）由此可知，他们航行确实用不到罗盘和图表，但是文中并没提到玛乌买不起这些工具，故此说法为“未提及”的。
题干意为“玛乌从祖父那里学到了航海技术。”关键词是grandfather。依据此关健词，可在文中第三段第一句找到相关叙述：“His grandfather began the task of teaching him how to navigate when he was still a baby.”（当他还很小的时候，他的祖父就开始教他航海。）故此题说法为“正确”的。
题干意为“玛乌用石头记忆天空中星星的位置。”关键词是stones和stars。 依据关键词，可在文中第三段倒数第二句找到相关叙述：“Later, Mau used a circle of stones to memorise the positions of the stars.”（之后，玛乌用一圈石头来记忆星星的位置。）故此题说法是“正确”的。
题干意为“夏威夷最早的居民能读写。”关键词是first inhabitants of Ha-waii。依据关键词可在文中最后一段第一句找到相关叙述：“The voyage proved that Hawaii's first inhabitants came in small boats and navigated by reading the sea and the stars.”（此次航行证明，夏威夷最早的居民是乘小船来到这里的，并通过观察海洋和星空来航行。）文中的 reading是观察的意思，除此之外并没有提到这些最早的居民会不会读写，故此说法是“未提及”的。
题干意为“玛乌希望自己的学生们能立刻记住星星的位置。”关键词是 students。依据此关键词，可在文中最后一句找到相关叙述：“He explained the positions of the stars to his students,but he allowed them to write things down because he knew they would never be able to remember everything as he had done.”（他向学生们解释星星的位置， 但他允许学生把知识点写下来，因为他知道他们不可能像他一样记住所有东西。）故此题说法为“错误”的。 -
第19题：
Very few of our birds stay with us the year round.Some come to us in the winter from the cold?north.Others come from the south to spend the summer with us.How do they know the way?Suppose?you were told to find your way to a place hundreds of miles away,do you think you could do it?
Yet birds travel over mountains,forests,lakes and even across the oceans,and do not stray from?the path.They find their way back in the spring to the same orchard（果园）and the very trees where?they nested the summer before.
It is wonderful how quickly birds travel such long distances from their summer homes to their?winter ones.Some birds have been known to fly hundreds of miles in a day.But others travel much?more slowly.
Why do birds undertake these long journeys twice a year?Perhaps cold weather and lack of?food drive them from us in the autumn,but we cannot tell why they leave the sunny south to come?back to us in the spring.We know only that many of them like to make their nests and rear their?young in the north.
We are sorry to see them go,but we know that when winter is over they will come back to us.
How far do birds usually travel from their summer homes to their winter ones?A.About hundreds of miles.
B.About thousands of miles.
C.The distance that takes a bird to fly the whole morning.
D.The passage does not tell us.答案：D解析：文中只提到了long journeys，但是没有说到底有多远。 -
第20题：
单选题We know from this passage that over one hundred seventy years ago ______.Ano women worked outside their homes
Bwomen were considered as children by the law
Cwomen cared nothing about how their family lives were
Dwomen were not allowed to decide how to spend their money or how to teach children
正确答案： D解析：
推理判断题。题干意为“从文章中我们可以知道170年前，美国的妇女是怎样的”。从文章的第一段最后一句话Decisions about family matter sand about the children were made by her husband, the‘head of the family’. 可知，当时，美国的妇女根本没有权利过问家庭事务，甚至是孩子的抚养等问题。所以本题的正确答案为D。 -
第21题：
单选题Only five years ago, there ______ a shortage of computer specialists.Awas
Bwere
Chas been
Dhave been
正确答案： A解析：
根据句中ago可知句子用一般过去时，there be句型中be动词的单复数与表语一致，句中a shortage of为单数，所以用was。 -
第22题：
单选题What are hamburgers most likely to be named after?AThe recipe for making them.
BThe person who invented them.
CThe place where they were first sold.
DThe restaurant where they are initially served.
正确答案： C解析： -
第23题：
问答题Water Crisis in Spain There’ve been floods, gales and heat waves across Europe-and some lay the blame for the unpredictable weather on climate change. Spain is undergoing its worst drought for sixty years with many areas in the south of the country not seeing a drop of rain for months. Some reservoirs are nearly empty while the volume of water in some rivers is down to a third of its normal level. Guadalajara, in the centre of the country, used to be a prosperous tourist area. Its old Moorish name, ironically, means water running through rocks. But when Emma Jane Kirby visited the small town of Buendia, she found an ecological disaster area in the marketing. There’s a strange smell around the lake at Buendia, the sort of smell that greets you when you first open the fridge after a week or two away from home—a putrid stench of salad leaves that’ve begun to turn to compost in their cellophane bag. I’m reluctant to mention this to my companion, Marco ObisP0 because this after are is the place where he has spent every one of his summer holidays and a just few hours ago we were pouting over the family photograph books while he reminisced wistfully about his idyllic childhood. The problem is I don’t recognize this place as being the same one he showed me in the pictures Those images boasted bronzed children racing joyfully down a bank of emerald green grass towards a vast expanse of water so blue that the cornflower sky above looked dazzled. But this landscape is bleached and barren, the banks crusted white, the ponds patchy and the colour of thin ink. Guadalajara in the centre of Spain has been hit hard by drought. The rains haven’t come since spring last year, leaving the soil parched and lifeless, as cracked and scarred as the face of a small pox victim. The sun has sucked the life from anything that once had the energy to be green and stealthily, its hot tongue has lapped away at the lake’s edge reducing the reservoirs to a fifth of the size they were twenty years ago. As quickly as the water’s evaporated, so have the tourists—the holidaymakers from all over Europe with whom Marco played as a child have been lured away to other areas of Spain where swimming or sailing a boat can be done without fear of scraping knees or hulls on the lake bed. If the landscape is crying out for new water management, then it’s weeping with painful dust-dry tears. North east of Buendia, only the ancient Spanish pine forests seem able to sustain life, some atavistic survival instinct wing them triumph over droughts which long ago killed off the weaker competition. But the trees are now so dehydrated and sapless they’ve become irresistible to fire-two weeks ago, thirteen thousand hectares were lost to a spark from a barbecue-an inferno that also claimed the lives of eleven men. As far as the eye can see now, the hills are almost bare.正确答案： 【参考译文】
西班牙水危机 连续的洪水、暴风和热浪袭击了欧洲——有人把这归咎于难以预料的天气变化。
西班牙正经历着六十年来最严重的干旱,该国南部的一些地区数月滴雨未见。一些水库几乎都干枯了,而一些河流的流量不到正常水量的三分之一。
位于该国中部的瓜达拉哈拉曾经是繁荣的旅游业地区。颇为讽刺的是它从前的摩尔语名字的意思是“流淌过岩石的水”。但当埃玛·简·科比来到布温迪亚这个小镇时,她发现一个生态灾难正在形成。
布温迪亚湖四周弥漫着一种怪异的味道,就好像是你离开家一两周后第一次打开冰箱时扑面而来的那种味道——腐烂的、发出阵阵恶臭的沙拉蔬菜叶在保鲜袋里快变成肥料的味道。我都无法向我的同伴马科·奥比斯珀提及此事,毕竟这里是他每年度过暑假的地方,而且就在几个小时前我们边翻看他的家庭相册,他还边若有所思地回忆起他田园诗般的童年。
问题是我并没有认出这个地方就是他在照片里给我指过的地方。这些照片引以自豪地展示出皮肤黝黑的孩子们欢快地沿着长满翠绿色青草的湖岸追逐,奔跑到一片巨大而开阔的湖水前,蓝色的湖水使头顶上矢车菊色的天空分外耀眼。但是眼下这片土地苍白而又荒凉。湖岸凄凉无色,淡淡的黑色湖水零星斑驳。
西班牙中部的瓜达拉哈拉遭受了严重的干旱。自从去年春天以来就没有下过雨。土地焦热,毫无生机,就像麻疹病人的脸上那样伤痕累累。任何曾经绿意盎然、神秘莫测的事物都被太阳吸去了生命。太阳炙热的舌头已经舔过了湖边,使水库里的水减少到20年前的五分之一。和水一起快速蒸发的是游客们——那些曾经在马科的孩提时代一起玩耍的来自欧洲各地的度假者被吸引到西班牙其他地方去了,在那里可以游泳也可以驾帆船而丝毫不用担心会擦伤膝盖或船会撞到湖底。
如果这片风景区正在为了新的水资源管理政策而哭喊着,那么它是饱含着疼痛而干涩的眼泪在啜泣。在布温迪亚东北部,只有古老的西班牙松树林似乎还能支撑着活下去。一种天生具有的求生本能使它们能战胜干旱,而干旱在很久以前就已经剥夺了较弱的竞争者的生命。但是如今松树严重脱水,濒临枯萎,它们难以阻挡火势的进攻——两周以前,13,000公顷的松林因为烤肉野餐的一个火星而被焚烧——这场灾难也夺走了11个人的生命。如今但凡目之所及之处,几乎都是光秃秃的小山。解析： 暂无解析