II．完形填空． (20分)Last month， Tom spent his holidays in a small town． He stayed at a small hotel (11) he train station for many days． One night， before he (12) ． he went to the owner of tile ho-tel and asked， "Will you please wake me up at (13) tomorrow’ morning? ‘I have to catch the five o’clock train "Oh， sorry， the owner said， "I (14) get up so early．" Then Tom asked the owner， "Have you got (15)alarm clock? (16) it can help me．" "Yes， here you are， sir． the owner said． Tom thanked him and (17) his room． However; when he (18) the clock carefully， he found there was (19) with it． Tom left his room and asked the owner again．"Excuse me， are you sure the clock will ring on time?" Tom asked．" (20)， sir! said the owner， "When you shake it at 4 : 30 in the morning， it will ring． "( )11．

He understood the ______ at once and asked,

If a teacher asks students to couect, compace and analyze certain sentence patterns,he/she aims at developing students’ ----.

Passage TwoQuestions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.Scientists have established that influenza viruses taken from man can cause the disease in animals. In addition，man can catch the disease from animals. In fact，a great number of wild birds seem to carry the virus without showing any evidence of illness. Some scientists conclude that a large family of influenza viruses may have evolved in the bird kingdom，a group that has been on the earth 100 million years and is able to carry the virus without contracting the disease. These are even convincing evidence to show that virus strains are transmitted from place to place and from continent to continent by migrating birds.It is known that two influenza viruses can recombine when both are present in an animal at the same time. The result of such recombinations is a great variety of strains constraining different H and N spikes. This raises the possibility that a human influenza virus can recombine with an influenza virus form. a lower animal to produce an entirely new spike.Research is underway to determine if that is the way that major new strains come into being. Another possibility is that two animal influenza strains may recombine in a pig，for example，to produce a new strain which is transmitted to man.According to the passage，scientists have discovered that influenza viruses______.

In the early 1950s the researchers who produced the first clad glass optical fibers were not thinking of using them for communications. (1) H____, fiber optics was already a well-established commercial technology when the famous paper by Kao and Hockham, (2)____(claim) the use of low-loss optical fibers for communication, appeared in 1966.　　The first low-loss silica fiber was described in (3)____ which appeared in October of 1970. The date of this publication is sometimes (4)____(cite) as the beginning of the era of fiber communication. Although this development did receive (5)____(consider) attention in the research community at the time, it was far from inevitable that a major industry would evolve.　　The technological barriers appeared formidable because there were serious doubts as to (6) wh_____ these fiber components could ever be produced economically enough, but the market potential was very significant. (7)____(consequence), research and development activity expanded rapidly, and a number of important issues were (8) re_____ during the early 1970s. During the middle and late 1970s，the rate of progress towards marketable products accelerated as the emphasis (9)____(shift) from research to engineering. Fibers with losses (10) app____ the Rayleigh limit of 2 dB/km at a wavelength of 0.8μm were produced.　　By 1980 improvement in component performance, cost, and reliability led to major commitments on the part of telephone companies.

Passage 4　　● Read the text below about the importance of an internship.
　　● Choose the best sentence from the opposite page to fill each of the gaps.
　　● For each gap 9-14, mark one letter(A-H)on your Answer Sheet.
　　● Do not use any letter more than once.
　　● There is an example at the beginning (0).
IS an internship really all that important?　　In years past, it was more common for college students to take summer jobs at local retail outlets or restaurants just to earn money, said John A Challenger, chief executive of Challenger Gray & Christmas. It can be extremely important as a way to determine which industries, companies and types of work are best for you, and as a way to secure future references and job offers.
　　Once starting an internship, make the most of it. Above all, be realistic. Some people approach internships with a sense of entitlement, said Mark Oldman, founder of Vault, a career Web site, and the author of several books on internships. He added, ‘it’s hard to go from a campus hot stuff to a corporate layman, and it’s ridiculous when some interns want to come in and change everything,’ (9)______
　　If you feel clueless, use that to your advantage. (10)______, interns generally have more freedom than the average employee to pass across departments and hierarchies in search of help. They can gain valuable knowledge and mentors, because most people enjoy sharing their experience with a younger generation.
　　In general, Mr.Oidman said, ‘It’s important for an intern to quickly decode the culture of the company and not step outside that.’ That extends to the way you dress, Mr. Challenger said. ‘A lot of times when you’re younger you want to show how unique you are rather than identify with others,’ he said. (11)______.
　　In the opinion of Mr. OIdman, internships are an ideal way for employers to find out whether a new worker is suitable for a particular job. (12)______. Therefore, as an intern, when you are asked to perform tasks that are boring and unimportant, you shouldn’t feel wronged by that you should be willing to do such work because that shows you are a hard worker, said Mr.Oldman. (13)______. ‘Look for work, but do it gently or indirectly, and not too assertively,’ Mr. Oldman added, ‘do what’s asked of you optimally and then offer your services for additional projects.’
　　Last but not least, there’s something you can do to improve the chances that your internship will lead a job offer. Before you leave, ‘build a budge to the future,’ Mr. Oldman said. Go over what you learned with your managers, and tell them how much you appreciated the opportunity to work with them. (14)______. That way, even if your internship does not lead to a job at that company, it will help clear a path to your eventual employer.
　　Example:
　　A. They enable employers to see who works hard, who gets along with everybody, who seems to fit into their culture.
　　B. And ask whether your managers would be willing to write a letter of recommendation before you leave.
　　C. It is much more appropriate to approach the internship with a learning attitude, as suggested by Mr. Oldman.
　　D. Many interns don’t attach sufficient importance to this
　　E. At the same time, be on the lookout for projects that will let you make good use of more advanced skills.
　　F. The power of curious interns can’t be overestimated.
　　G. In the workplace, however, you tend to be judged by your willingness to fit into the group’s norms.
　　H　But now an internship is seen as a vital first career step, he said.

The number of the cars in our neighborhood is about eight ______, and ______ of them are new cars.

Passage 1
Finding the Lost Freedom　　A  The private car is assumed to have widened our horizons and increased our mobility. When we consider our children’s mobility, they can be driven to more places (and more distant places) than they could visit without access to a motor vehicle. However, allowing our cities to be dominated by cars has progressively eroded children’s independent mobility. Children have lost much of their freedom to explore their own neighborhood or city without adult supervision. In recent surveys, when parents in some cities were asked about their own childhood experiences, the majority remembered having more, or far more, opportunities for going out on their own, compared with their own children today. They had more freedom to explore their own environment.
　　B  Children’s, independent access to their local streets may be important for their own personal, mental and psychological development. Allowing them to get to know their own neighborhood and community gives them a “sense of place”. This depends on “active exploration”, which is not provided for when children are passengers in cars. (Such children may see more, but they learn less.) Not only is it important that children be able to get to local play areas by themselves, but walking and cycling journeys to school and to other destinations provide genuine play activities in themselves.
　　C  There are very significant time and money costs for parents associated with transporting their children to school, sport and to other locations. Research in the United Kingdom estimated that this cost, in 1990, was between 10 billion and 20 billion pounds.
　　D  The reduction in children’s freedom may also contribute to a weakening of the sense of local community. As fewer children and adults use the streets as pedestrians, these streets become less sociable places. There is less opportunity for children and adults to have the spontaneous exchanges that help to engender a feeling of community. This in itself may exacerbate fears associated with assault and molestation of children, because there are fewer adults available who know their neighbors’ children, and who can look out for their safety.
　　E  The extra traffic involved in transporting children results in increased traffic congestion, pollution and accident risk. As our roads become more dangerous, more parents drive their children to more places, thus contributing to increased levels of danger for the remaining pedestrians. Anyone who has experienced either the reduced volume of traffic in peak hour during school holidays, or the traffic jams near schools at the end of a school day, will not need convincing about these points. Thus, there are also important environmental implications of children’s loss of freedom.
　　F  As individuals, parents strive to provide the best upbringing they can for their children. However, in doing so, (e.g. by driving their children to sport, school or recreation) parents may be contributing to a more dangerous environment for children generally. The idea that “streets are for cars and back yards and playgrounds are for children” is a strongly held belief, and parents have little choice as individuals but to keep their children off the streets if they want to protect their safety.
　　G  In many parts of Dutch cities, and some traffic calmed precincts in Germany, residential streets are now places where cars must give way to pedestrians. In these areas, residents are accepting the view that the function of streets is not solely to provide mobility for cars. Streets may also be for social interaction, walking, cycling and playing. One of the most important aspects of these European cities, in terms of giving cities back to children, has been a range of “traffic calming” initiatives, aiming at reducing the volume speed of traffic. These initiatives have had complex interactive effects, leading to a sense that children have been able to “recapture” their local neighborhood, and more importantly, that they have been able to do this in safety. Recent research has demonstrated that children in many German cities have significantly higher levels to freedom to travel to places in their own neighborhood or city than children in other cities in the world.
　　H  Modifying cities in order to enhance children’s freedom will not only benefit children. Such cities will become more environmentally sustainable, as well as more sociable and more livable for all city residents. Perhaps it will be our concern for our children’s welfare that convinces us that we need to challenge the dominance of the car in our cities.
　　Complete each sentence with the correct ending i-x below.
　　Write the correct number i-x in boxes 1-6 on your answer sheet.
　　1. By driving their children to school, parents help create ______
　　2. Children should play ______
　　3. In some German towns, pedestrians have preference right of walking ______
　　4. Streets should also be used for ______
　　5. Reducing the amount of traffic and the speed is ______
　　6. All people who live in the city will benefit if cities are ______

Simon rents a car in the city to go skiing in the mountains 100 kilometres away. He stops halfway to pick up his girlfriend Nina at her house, and drives the remaining 50 kilometres with her. On their way back, Simon drops Nina at her house and drives back to the city alone. He returns the car and pays $50 for the rental and $10 for the gas. Simon and Nina share the expenses equitably. How much should Nina pay?

The policeman looked at me suspiciously, and he asked me what I wanted.

Passage 2Life Beyond Earth　　A  We all have our suppositions, our scenarios. The late astronomer Carl Sagan estimated that there are a million technological civilizations in our galaxy alone. His more conservative colleague Frank Drake offers the number 10,000. John Oro, a pioneering comet researcher, calculates that the Milky Way is sprinkled with a hundred civilizations. And finally there are skeptics like Ben Zuckerman, an astronomer at UCLA, who thinks we may as well be alone in this galaxy if not in the universe.　　B  All the estimates are highly speculative. The fact is that there is no conclusive evidence of any life beyond Earth. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, as various pundits have wisely noted. But still we don’t have any solid knowledge about a single alien microbe, a solitary spore, much less the hubcap from a passing alien starship.　　C  Our ideas about extraterrestrial life are what Sagan called “plausibility arguments,” usually shot through with unknowns, hunches, ideologies, and random ought-to-bes. Even if we convince ourselves that there must be life out there, we confront a second problem, which is that we don’t know anything about that life. We don’t know how truly alien it is. We don’t know if it’s built on a foundation of carbon atoms. We don’t know if it requires a liquid-water medium, if it swims or flies or burrows.　　D  Despite the enveloping nebula of uncertainties, extraterrestrial life has become an increasingly exciting area of scientific inquiry. The field is called exobiology or astrobiology or bioastronomy—every few years it seems as though the name has been changed to protect the ignorant.　　E  Whatever it’s called, this is a science infused with optimism. We now know that the universe may be aswarm with planets. Since 1995 astronomers have detected at least 22 planets orbiting other stars. NASA hopes to build a telescope called the Terrestrial Planet Finder to search for Earth-like planets, examining them for the atmospheric signatures of a living world. In the past decade organisms have been found thriving on our own planet in bizarre, hostile environments. If microbes can live in the pores of rock deep beneath the earth or at the rim of a scalding Yellowstone spring, then they might find a place like Mars not so shabby.　　F  Mars is in the midst of a full-scale invasion from Earth, from polar landers to global surveyors to rovers looking for fossils. A canister of Mars rocks will be rocketed back to Earth in the year 2008, parachuting into the Utah desert for scrutiny by scientists in a carefully sealed lab. In the coming years probes will also go around and, at some point, into Jupiter’s moon Europa. That icy world shows numerous signs of having a subsurface ocean—and could conceivably harbor a dark, cold biosphere.　　G  The quest for an alien microbe is supplemented by a continuing effort to find something large, intelligent, and communicative. SETI—the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence—has not yielded a confirmed signal from an alien civilization in 40 years of experiments, but the signal-processing technology grows more sophisticated each year. The optimists figure it’s only a matter of time before we tune in the right channel.　　H  No one knows when—or if—one of these investigations might make a breakthrough. There’s a fair bit of boosterism surrounding the entire field, but I’d bet the breakthrough is many years, if not decades, away. The simple truth: Extraterrestrial life, by definition, is not conveniently located.　　I  But there are other truths that sustain the search for alien organisms. One is that, roughly speaking, the universe looks habitable. Another is that life radiates information about itself—that, if nothing else, it usually leaves a residue or an imprint. If the universe contains an abundance of life, that life is not likely to remain forever in the realm of the unknown.　　J  Contact with an alien civilization would be an epochal and culturally challenging event, but exobiologists would settle gladly for the discovery of a tiny fossil, a mere remnant of extraterrestrial biochemistry. One example. One data point to add to the one we have—Earth life. That’s what we need to begin the long process of putting human existence in its true cosmic context.　　Complete the sentences.　　Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer. 　　Write your answers in boxes 1-5 on your answer sheet.　　1. Experts are approaching Mars extensively in the search of ______.　　2 Jupiter’s moon Europa will be in the analysed for it is conceived to embrace a ______ probably hostile to life.　　3. Although no clear signals have been received by human being, advances made in ______ has provided some optimism after 40 years’ experiments.　　4. The reason why extraterrestrial life cannot be immediately found is that it is not readily ______.　　5. The look for alien organism can still be sustained because it would still give off traces such as a ______.

Practice 2　　Everyone knows that taxation is necessary in a modern state: without it, it (1)______ not be possible to pay the soldiers and policemen who protect us; (2) ______ the workers in government offices who look after our health, our food, our water, and all the other things that we cannot do for ourselves. By means of taxation, we pay for things that we need just as much as we need somewhere to live and something to eat. But (3) ______ everyone knows that taxation is necessary, different people have different ideas about (4) ______ taxation should be arranged.　　In most countries, a direct tax on (5) ______, which is called income tax, (6) ______. It is arranged in such a way that the poorest people pay nothing, and the percentage of tax grows (7) ______ as the taxpayer’s income grows. In some countries, for example, the tax on the richest people goes up as high as ninety-five percent!　　But countries with direct taxation nearly (8) ______ have indirect taxation too. Many things imported into the country have to pay taxes or “duties”. Of course, it is the men and women who buy these imported things in the shops (9) ______ really have to pay the duties, in the (10) ______ of higher prices. In some countries, too, there is a tax on things sold in the shops. If the most necessary things are taxed, a lot of money is collected but the poor people suffer most. If unnecessary things like jewels and fur coats are taxed, less money is obtained but the tax is fairer, as the rich pay it.[A] nor　　　　　[B] will　　　　 [C] form[D] if　　　　　 [E] exists 　　　[F] who[G] people　　　 [H] larger　　　 [I] always[J] that　　　　 [K] though　　　 [L] periodically[M] would　　　　[N] persons　　　[O] how