单项选择题

　　1、peculiarly pointed chin is his most memorable facial characteristic.

　　A.mark

　　B.feature

　　C.trace

　　D.appearance

　　2、 Shelly had prepared carefully for her biology examination so that she could be sure of passing it on her first endeavor.

　　A.intention

　　B.attempt

　　C.purpose

　　D.desire

　　3、Foreign money can be converted into the local currency at this bank.

　　A.altered

　　B.changed

　　C.bought

　　D.sold

　　4、 He notofoed his friends that his address had changeD.

　　A.informed

　　B.observed

　　C. mocked

　　D. misled

　　5、All the flats in the building had the same layout.

　　A.color

　　B.arrangement

　　C.size

　　D.function

　　6、When I heard the noise in the next room, I couldn’t resist having a peep.

　　A.look

　　B.chance

　　C.visit

　　D.try

　　7、 根据以下材料回答题：

　　Immigration

　　Immigration is the act of coming to a foreign country to live. The act of leaving one's country to settle in another is called emigration. Immigrants who flee their country because of persecution, war, or such disasters as famines or epidemic are known as refugees or displaced persons (DP's). Most people find it very hard to pull up roots in their native land and move to a strange country. But throughout history, countless millions of people have done so. The heaviest immigration worldwide took place from the early 1800's to the Great Depression-the economic hard times of the 1930's. In that period, about 60 million people moved to a new land. Most came from Europe. More than half immigrated to the United States. Other destinations included Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Today, the availability of fast, safe and cheap transportation helps make migration easier. Asia is replacing Europe as the major immigrant-sending area. The United States remains the chief receiving nation.

　　People forsake their homeland and move to another country for various reasons.

　　The main reason for immigration has long been economic opportunity-the lure of better land or a better job. During the 1800's, for example, the rich prairie land of the United States and Canada attracted many European farmers. Today, professional people commonly emigrated because of better opportunities elsewhere. Such emigration has sometimes been called brain drain. For example, many Philippine doctors and nurses and numerous Indian engineers and scientists have moved to the United States and Australia.

　　Religious persecution has led many people to move to a new land for the freedom to practice their faith. Such immigrants include Jews expelled from England in the ]200's.

　　Wars, revolutions, and political unrest have driven innumerable people to find new homes. In the 1990's alone, millions of refugees fled from .warfare in Iraq, Rwanda, Liberia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

　　Some immigrants were brought to a new land against their will. From the 1500's to the 1800's, Europeans shipped black Africans to the Western Hemisphere as slaves. The United Kingdom transported convicts to Australia from the late 1700's to the 1860's to relieve over crowding in British jails. Before that time, the United Kingdom sent convicts to the American colonies.

　　Immigrants have made enormous contributions to the culture and economy of such nations as Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Argentina, Brazil, Canada and the United States. But their accomplishments have been made with great difficulty. Many of the receiving countries have restricted immigration to maintain a homogeneous society in which all the people shared the same ethnic, geographic, and cultural background. Although some immigration laws have been relaxed, many newcomers of different backgrounds still face challenges in gaining acceptance.

　　Most immigrants to the United States in the nineteenth century came from__________

　　A.Asia

　　B.Europe

　　C.Australia

　　D.South Africa

　　8、回答题：

　　A Star Is Born

　　1. The VLT (Very Large Telescope) is the world's largest telescope ( 望远镜) and is taking astronomers (天文学家 ) further back to the Big Bang than they ever thought possible. Located 2,600 metres up io the Chilean Andes, it has four huge mirrors, each about the size of a London bus. The VLT is so powerful it can spot a burning match 10,000 kilometres away.

　　2. This astonishing power will allow astronomers to see events in space from the birth of stars to the collision ( 碰撞 ) of galaxies ( 星系 ) on the edge of the cosmos ( 宇宙 ). The VLT is giving astronomers their best-ever view of the cosmos. The power of the VLT to see the smallest detail at the furthest distances makes its designers amazed.

　　3. Take the case of Eta Carinae, one of the most explosive stars in the universe. This star produces ultraviolet laser rays ( 紫外线 ) and it will destroy itself in a few million years' time. It is five times brighter than the sun and when it explodes it is going to be a sight worth waiting for!

　　4. But it is at distances of millions, even billions, of light years that the VLT really shows its power. The VLT can detect light that set out on its journey before the earth even existed. This gives astronomers their first-ever detailed views of events that took place in the earliest days of the cosmos.

　　5. In other words, the VLT is a kind of a time machine. It takes astronomers back to a time when complete galaxies crashed into each other. The effects of these past collisions can now be seen by scientists, and astronomers believe the telescope will reveal more about these exciting events in the years to come. One day, we might be able to say we have traveled back to the beginning of time, and we will have a much clearer picture of how our planet was born.

　　Paragraph 1__________

　　A.Enents that Took Place before the Earth Existed

　　B.Power of the Telescope

　　C.Details of Eta Carinae

　　D.Invention of a Time Machine

　　E.Biggest Telescope

　　9、根据以下材料回答题：

　　Benefited or Hurt

　　For the most part, it seems, workers in rich countries have little to fear from globalization, and a lot to gain. But is the same thing true for workers in poor countries? The answer is that they are even more likely than their rich country counterparts to benefit, because they have less to lose and more to gain. Orthodox economics takes an optimistic line on integration and the developing countries. Openness to foreign trade and investment should encourage capital to flow to poor economies. In the developing world, capital is scarce, so the returns on investment there should be higher than in the industrialized countries, where the best opportunities to make money by adding capital to labor have already been used up. If pool countries lower their barriers to trade and investment, the theory goes: rich foreigners wilt want to send over some of their capital.

　　If this inflow of resources arrives in the form of loans or portfolio investment, it will supplement domestic savings and loosen the financial constraint on additional investment by local companies. If it arrives in the form of new foreign controlled operations, FDI, so much the better: this kind of capital brings technology and skills from abroad packaged along with it, with less financial risk as well. In either case, the addition to investment

　　ought to push incomes up, partly by raising the demand for labor and partly by making labor more productive. This why workers in FDI receiving countries should be in an even better position to profit from integration than workers in FDI sending countries. Also, with or without inflows of foreign capital, the same static and dynamic gains from trade should apply in developing countries as in rich ones. This gain from trade logic often arouses suspicion, because the benefits seem to come from nowhere. Surely one side or the other must lose. Not so. The benefits that a rich country gets though trade do not come at the expense of its poor country trading partners, or vice versa. Recall that according to the theory, trade is a positive sum game. In all these transactions, sides exporters and importers, borrowers and lenders, shareholders and workers can gain.

　　According to the passage, who may be reasonably afraid of the globalization?

　　A.Workers in rich countries

　　B.Workers in poor countries

　　C.Both of them

　　D.None of them

　　10、 His stomach felt hollow with fear.

　　A.sincere

　　B.respectful

　　C.terrible

　　D.empty

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