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Man of Few Words
Everyone chases success,but not all of us want to be famous.
South African writer John Maxwell Coetzee is______(51)for keeping to himself.When the 63-year-old man was named the 2003 Nobel Prize winner for literature,reporters were warned that they would find him"particularly difficult to______（52)".
Coetzee lives in Australia but spends part of the year teaching at the University of Chicago.He seemed ______(53)by the news that he won the US $1.3 million prize.
"It came as a complete surprise.I wasn't even aware they were due to make the announcement,"he said.His_______(54)of privacy led to doubts as to whether Coetzee will attend prize-giving in Stockholm, Sweden,on December 10.But despite being described as_______(55)to track down,the critics agree that his writing is easy to get to know.
Born in Cape Town,South Africa,to an English-speaking family,Coetzee______(56)his break- through in 1980 with the novel"Waiting for the Barbarians".He_______(57)his place among the wor1d's leading writers with two Booker prize victories,Britain's highest honour for novels.He first _______(58)in 1983 for the Life and Times of Michael K and his second title came in 1999 for Disgrace.
A major theme in his work is South Africa's former apartheid system,which divided whites from blacks. _______(59)with the problems of violence,crime and racial division that still exist in the country,his books have enabled ordinary people to understand apartheid_______(60)within."I have always been more interested in the past than the future,"he said in a rare interview.
"The past_______(61)its shadow over the present.I hope I have made one or two people think _______(62)about whether they want to forget the past completely."In fact,this purity in his writing seems to be______(63)in his personal life.Coetzee is a vegetarian,a cyclist rather than a motorist and he doesn't drink alcohol.But what he has______(64)to literature,culture and the people of South Africa is far greater than the things he has given up."In looking at weakness and failure in life,"the Noble prize judging panel said,"Coetzee's work_______(65)the divine spark in man."
57._________
A:kept
B:listed
C:took
D:arranged
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Global Warming
Few people now question the reality of global warming and its effects on the world's climate.Many scientists______(1)the blame for recent natural disasters on the increase______(2) the world's temperatures and are convinced that,more than______(3)before,the Earth is at______(4)from the forces of the wind,rain and sun.______(5)to them,global warming is making extreme weather events,______(6)as hurricanes and droughts,even more______(7)and causing sea levels all around the world to______(8).
Environmental groups are putting______(9) on governments to take action to reduce the ______(10) of carbon dioxide which is given______(11) by factories and power plants,thus attacking the problem at its source.They are in______(12) of more money being spent on research into so-lar,wind and wave energy devices,which could then replace existing power______(13).
Some scientists,______(14) believe that even if we stopped releasing carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere tomorrow,we would have to wait______(15) hundred years to notice the results.Global warming,it seems,is here to stay.
10._________
A:amount
B:deal
C:number
D:count
Global Warming
Few people now question the reality of global warming and its effects on the world's climate.Many scientists______(1)the blame for recent natural disasters on the increase______(2) the world's temperatures and are convinced that,more than______(3)before,the Earth is at______(4)from the forces of the wind,rain and sun.______(5)to them,global warming is making extreme weather events,______(6)as hurricanes and droughts,even more______(7)and causing sea levels all around the world to______(8).
Environmental groups are putting______(9) on governments to take action to reduce the ______(10) of carbon dioxide which is given______(11) by factories and power plants,thus attacking the problem at its source.They are in______(12) of more money being spent on research into so-lar,wind and wave energy devices,which could then replace existing power______(13).
Some scientists,______(14) believe that even if we stopped releasing carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere tomorrow,we would have to wait______(15) hundred years to notice the results.Global warming,it seems,is here to stay.
10._________
A:amount
B:deal
C:number
D:count
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第一篇
DNA Testing
DNA testing reveals the genes of each individual person.Since the early twentieth century scientists
have known that all human characteristics are contained in a person's genes and are passed from parents to
children.Genes work as a chemical instruction manual for each part and each function of the body.Their
basic chemical element is called DNA,a copy of which can be found in every cell. The existence of genes
and the chemical structure of DNA were understood by the mid-1900s,but scientists have only recently been
able to identify a person from just a drop of blood or a single hair.
One of the most important uses of DNA testing is in criminal investigation.The very first use of DNA
testing in a criminal case was in 1985 in Great Britain,when a man confessed to killing a young woman in
the English countryside.Because police had found samples of the killer's DNA at the scene of the crime,a
biologist suggested that it might be possible to compare that DNA to some from the confessor's blood.To
everyone's surprise,the tests showed that he was not the killer. Nor was he guilty of a similar murder that
had happened some time earlier. At that point he admitted that he had confessed to the crimes out of fear
and police pressure.The police then asked 5,000 local men for samples of their blood,and DNA testing
revealed that one of them was the real murderer,so the first man was set free.
In 1992,two law professors,Peter Neufeld and Bany Scheck,decided to use DNA evidence to help set free
such mistakenly convicted prisoners.With the help of their students.they created a not-for-profit organization
called the Innocence Project. Most of their clients are poor men,many from racial and ethnic minorities.In
fact,studies have shown that U. S. judges and juries are often influenced by racial and ethnic background,and
that people from minority groups are more likely to be convicted. Some of these men had been sentenced to
death,a form of punishment used in thirty eight states out of fifty(as of 2006).For most of these prisoners,their
only hope was another trial in which DNA testing could be used to prove their innocence.
Between 1992 and 2006,the Innocence Project helped free 100 men.Some of these prisoners had been
in jail for ten,twenty years or more for crimes they did not commit.However,the goal of the Innocence
Project is not simply to set free those who are wrongfully in jail.They also hope to bring about real changes
in the criminal justice system.
Illinois in the late 1990s,a group of journalism students at Northwestern University were able to bring
about such a change in that state.They began investigating some Illinois prisoners who claimed to be inno-
cent. Through DNA testing,the students were able to prove that in fact the prisoners were not guilty of the
crimes they had been accused of. Thirteen of these men were set free,and in 2000,Governor Ryan of
Illinois decided to stop carrying out death sentences until further study could be made of the prisoners'
cases。
The use of DNA in criminal cases is still being debated around the world.Some fear that governments
will one day keep records of everyone'sDNA,which could put limits on the privacy and freedom of citizens.
Other people mistrust the science of DNA testing and think that lawyers use it to get their clients free whether
or not they are guilty.But for those whose innocence has been proven and who are now free men,DNA
testing has meant nothing less than a return to life.And with the careful use of DNA testing,no innocent
person should ever be convicted again.
What is the author's attitude toward DNA testing?
A:Negative.
B:Positive.
C:Suspicious.
D:Indifferent.
第一篇
DNA Testing
DNA testing reveals the genes of each individual person.Since the early twentieth century scientists
have known that all human characteristics are contained in a person's genes and are passed from parents to
children.Genes work as a chemical instruction manual for each part and each function of the body.Their
basic chemical element is called DNA,a copy of which can be found in every cell. The existence of genes
and the chemical structure of DNA were understood by the mid-1900s,but scientists have only recently been
able to identify a person from just a drop of blood or a single hair.
One of the most important uses of DNA testing is in criminal investigation.The very first use of DNA
testing in a criminal case was in 1985 in Great Britain,when a man confessed to killing a young woman in
the English countryside.Because police had found samples of the killer's DNA at the scene of the crime,a
biologist suggested that it might be possible to compare that DNA to some from the confessor's blood.To
everyone's surprise,the tests showed that he was not the killer. Nor was he guilty of a similar murder that
had happened some time earlier. At that point he admitted that he had confessed to the crimes out of fear
and police pressure.The police then asked 5,000 local men for samples of their blood,and DNA testing
revealed that one of them was the real murderer,so the first man was set free.
In 1992,two law professors,Peter Neufeld and Bany Scheck,decided to use DNA evidence to help set free
such mistakenly convicted prisoners.With the help of their students.they created a not-for-profit organization
called the Innocence Project. Most of their clients are poor men,many from racial and ethnic minorities.In
fact,studies have shown that U. S. judges and juries are often influenced by racial and ethnic background,and
that people from minority groups are more likely to be convicted. Some of these men had been sentenced to
death,a form of punishment used in thirty eight states out of fifty(as of 2006).For most of these prisoners,their
only hope was another trial in which DNA testing could be used to prove their innocence.
Between 1992 and 2006,the Innocence Project helped free 100 men.Some of these prisoners had been
in jail for ten,twenty years or more for crimes they did not commit.However,the goal of the Innocence
Project is not simply to set free those who are wrongfully in jail.They also hope to bring about real changes
in the criminal justice system.
Illinois in the late 1990s,a group of journalism students at Northwestern University were able to bring
about such a change in that state.They began investigating some Illinois prisoners who claimed to be inno-
cent. Through DNA testing,the students were able to prove that in fact the prisoners were not guilty of the
crimes they had been accused of. Thirteen of these men were set free,and in 2000,Governor Ryan of
Illinois decided to stop carrying out death sentences until further study could be made of the prisoners'
cases。
The use of DNA in criminal cases is still being debated around the world.Some fear that governments
will one day keep records of everyone'sDNA,which could put limits on the privacy and freedom of citizens.
Other people mistrust the science of DNA testing and think that lawyers use it to get their clients free whether
or not they are guilty.But for those whose innocence has been proven and who are now free men,DNA
testing has meant nothing less than a return to life.And with the careful use of DNA testing,no innocent
person should ever be convicted again.
What is the author's attitude toward DNA testing?
A:Negative.
B:Positive.
C:Suspicious.
D:Indifferent.
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A Powerful Influence
There can be no doubt at all that the Internet has made a huge difference to our lives.Parents are worried that children spend too much time playing on the Internet,hardly______(1) doing anything else in their spare time.Naturally,parents are______(2)to find out why the Internet is so attractive,and they want to know if it can be______(3) to their children.Should parents worry if their children are spending that much time______(4) their computers?
Obviously,if children are bent over their computers for hours,______(5) in some game,in-stead of doing their homework,then something is wrong.Parents and children could decide how much use the child should______(6) of the Internet,and the child should give his or her______(7) that it won't interfere with homework.If the child is not______(8) to this arrangement,the parent can take more drastic______(9)dealing with a child's use of the Internet is not much dif-ferent from______(10) any other soft of bargain about behaviour.
Any parent who is______(11) alarmed about a child's behaviour should make an appointment to______(12)the matter with a teacher.Spending time in front of the screen does not ______(13)affect a child's performance at school.Even if a child is______(14)crazy about using the Internet, he or she is probably just______(15) through a phase,and in a few months there will be some-thing else to worry about!
7._________
A:word
B:promise
C:vow
D:claim
A Powerful Influence
There can be no doubt at all that the Internet has made a huge difference to our lives.Parents are worried that children spend too much time playing on the Internet,hardly______(1) doing anything else in their spare time.Naturally,parents are______(2)to find out why the Internet is so attractive,and they want to know if it can be______(3) to their children.Should parents worry if their children are spending that much time______(4) their computers?
Obviously,if children are bent over their computers for hours,______(5) in some game,in-stead of doing their homework,then something is wrong.Parents and children could decide how much use the child should______(6) of the Internet,and the child should give his or her______(7) that it won't interfere with homework.If the child is not______(8) to this arrangement,the parent can take more drastic______(9)dealing with a child's use of the Internet is not much dif-ferent from______(10) any other soft of bargain about behaviour.
Any parent who is______(11) alarmed about a child's behaviour should make an appointment to______(12)the matter with a teacher.Spending time in front of the screen does not ______(13)affect a child's performance at school.Even if a child is______(14)crazy about using the Internet, he or she is probably just______(15) through a phase,and in a few months there will be some-thing else to worry about!
7._________
A:word
B:promise
C:vow
D:claim
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Verne's Accurate Previw of the Future
Since the beginning of time,man has been interested in the moon.The Romans designed a special day to show admiration and respect to the moon.They called it“Moonday”,or “Monday”,as we know it today.Later,the great mind of Leonardo da Vinci studied the moon and designed a machine to carry a human to the moon.Leonardo said that one day a great machine bird would take a person to the moon and bring great honor to the home where it was born.
Four and a half centuries later,Leonardo's idea was realized.Apollo Ⅱ took three
Americans一Collins,Aldrin,and Armstrong一to the moon.The mission did fill the whole world with great surprise,as Leonardo had said it would.Numerous essays,articles,and books were written about man's first moon mission.But perhaps the most interesting story was one written before the event一over 100 years ago.
In 1865,French author Jules Verne wrote a story about the first journey to the moon.His story was very similar to the 1969 Apollo Ⅱ mission.
Verne's spacecraft also contained three men一two Americans and a Frenchman.The spacecraft was described as being almost the same size as Apollo Ⅱ .The launch site in Verne's story was also in Florida.The spacecraft in Verne's story was named the“Columbiad”aa.The Apollo Ⅱ command ship was called“Columbia”.His account of sending the space-craft into the space could easily have been written about how Apollo Ⅱ was sent into the space.
Verne's story was the same as the actual event in several other respects.The speed of Verne's spacecraft was 36,000 feet per second；Apollo's was 35,533 feet per second.Verne's spacecraft took 97 hours to reach the moon；Apollo's time was 103 hours.Like Apollo's spacemen,Verne's spacemen took pictures of the moon's surface,relaxed on their seats, cooked with gas,and experienced weightlessness.They also came down in the Pacific and were picked up by an American warship.
What were the reasons for Jules Verne's extreme accuracy in describing an event 100 years or more before it actually occurred?He based his writings on the laws of physics and astronomy（天文学）.Nineteenth-century science and the vivid Verne's imagination gave people an unbelievable accurate preview of the greatest events of the 20th century.
According to the passage,which of the following statements is true?
A:Monday is named by the Greek to show their respect to the sun.
B:Unfortunately,Leonardo's idea wasn't realized before he died.
C:Apollo II was launched from California in 1969.
D:Amazingly,Verne's story was exactly the same as the actual event.
Verne's Accurate Previw of the Future
Since the beginning of time,man has been interested in the moon.The Romans designed a special day to show admiration and respect to the moon.They called it“Moonday”,or “Monday”,as we know it today.Later,the great mind of Leonardo da Vinci studied the moon and designed a machine to carry a human to the moon.Leonardo said that one day a great machine bird would take a person to the moon and bring great honor to the home where it was born.
Four and a half centuries later,Leonardo's idea was realized.Apollo Ⅱ took three
Americans一Collins,Aldrin,and Armstrong一to the moon.The mission did fill the whole world with great surprise,as Leonardo had said it would.Numerous essays,articles,and books were written about man's first moon mission.But perhaps the most interesting story was one written before the event一over 100 years ago.
In 1865,French author Jules Verne wrote a story about the first journey to the moon.His story was very similar to the 1969 Apollo Ⅱ mission.
Verne's spacecraft also contained three men一two Americans and a Frenchman.The spacecraft was described as being almost the same size as Apollo Ⅱ .The launch site in Verne's story was also in Florida.The spacecraft in Verne's story was named the“Columbiad”aa.The Apollo Ⅱ command ship was called“Columbia”.His account of sending the space-craft into the space could easily have been written about how Apollo Ⅱ was sent into the space.
Verne's story was the same as the actual event in several other respects.The speed of Verne's spacecraft was 36,000 feet per second；Apollo's was 35,533 feet per second.Verne's spacecraft took 97 hours to reach the moon；Apollo's time was 103 hours.Like Apollo's spacemen,Verne's spacemen took pictures of the moon's surface,relaxed on their seats, cooked with gas,and experienced weightlessness.They also came down in the Pacific and were picked up by an American warship.
What were the reasons for Jules Verne's extreme accuracy in describing an event 100 years or more before it actually occurred?He based his writings on the laws of physics and astronomy（天文学）.Nineteenth-century science and the vivid Verne's imagination gave people an unbelievable accurate preview of the greatest events of the 20th century.
According to the passage,which of the following statements is true?
A:Monday is named by the Greek to show their respect to the sun.
B:Unfortunately,Leonardo's idea wasn't realized before he died.
C:Apollo II was launched from California in 1969.
D:Amazingly,Verne's story was exactly the same as the actual event.
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Global Warming
Few people now question the reality of global warming and its effects on the world's climate.Many scientists______(1)the blame for recent natural disasters on the increase______(2) the world's temperatures and are convinced that,more than______(3)before,the Earth is at______(4)from the forces of the wind,rain and sun.______(5)to them,global warming is making extreme weather events,______(6)as hurricanes and droughts,even more______(7)and causing sea levels all around the world to______(8).
Environmental groups are putting______(9) on governments to take action to reduce the ______(10) of carbon dioxide which is given______(11) by factories and power plants,thus attacking the problem at its source.They are in______(12) of more money being spent on research into so-lar,wind and wave energy devices,which could then replace existing power______(13).
Some scientists,______(14) believe that even if we stopped releasing carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere tomorrow,we would have to wait______(15) hundred years to notice the results.Global warming,it seems,is here to stay.
15._________
A:several
B:over
C:numerous
D:various
Global Warming
Few people now question the reality of global warming and its effects on the world's climate.Many scientists______(1)the blame for recent natural disasters on the increase______(2) the world's temperatures and are convinced that,more than______(3)before,the Earth is at______(4)from the forces of the wind,rain and sun.______(5)to them,global warming is making extreme weather events,______(6)as hurricanes and droughts,even more______(7)and causing sea levels all around the world to______(8).
Environmental groups are putting______(9) on governments to take action to reduce the ______(10) of carbon dioxide which is given______(11) by factories and power plants,thus attacking the problem at its source.They are in______(12) of more money being spent on research into so-lar,wind and wave energy devices,which could then replace existing power______(13).
Some scientists,______(14) believe that even if we stopped releasing carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere tomorrow,we would have to wait______(15) hundred years to notice the results.Global warming,it seems,is here to stay.
15._________
A:several
B:over
C:numerous
D:various
