第五篇

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　　In the following article, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45 ,choose the most suitable one from the list A-G to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are two extra choices ,which do not fit in any of the gaps .Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.(10 points)

　　Fields across Europe are contaminated with dangerous levels of the antibiotics given to farm animals. The drugs, which are in manure sprayed onto fields as fertilizers, could be getting into our food and water, helping to create a new generation of antibiotic-resistant “superbugs”.

　　The warning comes from a researcher in Switzerland who looked at levels of the drugs in farm slurry. 41)

　　Some 20,000 tons antibiotics are used in the European Union and the US each year. More than half are given to farm-animals to prevent disease and promote growth. 42)

　　Most researchers assumed that humans become infected with the resistant strains by eating contaminated meat. But far more of the drugs end up in manure than in meat products, says Stephen Mueller of the Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology in Dubendorf. 43)

　　With millions of tons animals manure spread onto fields of cops such as wheat and barley each year, this pathway seems an equally likely route for spreading resistance, he said. The drugs contaminate the crops, which are then eaten.44)

　　Mueller is particularly concerned about a group of antibiotics called sulphonamides.45) This concentration is high enough to trigger the development of resistance among bacteria. But vets are not treating the issue seriously.

　　There is growing concern at the extent to which drugs, including antibiotics, are polluting the environment. Many drugs given to humans are also excreted unchanged and broken down by conventional sewage treatment.

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　　[A] They do not easily degrade or dissolve in water. His analysis found that Swiss farm manure contains a high percentage of sulphonamides; each hectare of field could be contaminated with up to 1 kilogram of the drugs.

　　[B] And manure contains especially high levels of bugs that are resistant to antibiotics, he says.

　　[C] Animal antibiotics is still an area to which insufficient attention has been paid.

　　[D] But recent research has found a direct link between the increased use of these farmyard drugs and the appearance of antibiotic-resistant bugs that infect people.

　　[E] His findings are particularly shocking because Switzerland is one of the few countries to have banned antibiotics as growth promoters in animal feed.

　　[F] They could also be leaching into tap water pumped from rocks beneath fertilized fields.

　　[G] There is no doubt that the food and drink is always important to the health.

　　第六篇

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　　In the following article, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45 ,choose the most suitable one from the list A-G to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are two extra choices ,which do not fit in any of the gaps .Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.(10 points)

　　The main problem in discussing American popular culture is also one of its main characteristics: it won’t stay American. no matter what it is, whether it is films, food and fashion, music, casual sports or slang, it’s soon at home elsewhere in the world. There are several theories why American popular culture has had this appeal.

　　One theory is that is has been “advertised” and marketed through American films, popular music, and more recently, television.41)____They are, after all, in competition with those produced by other countries.

　　Another theory, probably a more common one, is that American popular culture is internationally associated with something called “the spirit of America.” 42)____

　　The final theory is less complex: American popular culture is popular because a lot of people in the world like it.

　　Regardless of why its spreads, American popular culture is usually quite rapidly adopted and then adapted in many other countries. 43)____ Black leather jackets worn by many heroes in American movies could be found, a generation later, on all those young men who wanted to make this manly-look their own.

　　Two areas where this continuing process is most clearly seen are clothing and music. Some people can still remember a time. When T-shirts, jogging clothes, tennis shoes, denim jackets, and blue jeans were not common daily wear everywhere. Only twenty years ago, it was possible to spot an American in Paris by his or her clothes. No longer so : those bright colors, checkered jackets and trousers, hats and socks which were once made fun in cartoons are back again in Paris as the latest fashion. 44)____.

　　The situation with American popular music is more complex because in the beginning, when it was still clearly American ,it was often strongly resisted. Jazz was once thought to be a great danger to youth and their morals, and was actually outlawed in several countries. Today, while still showing its rather American roots, it has become so well established. Rock “n” roll and all its variations, country & western music, all have more or less similar histories. They were first resisted, often in America as well, as being “low-class,” and then as “a danger to our nation’s youth.” 45)____ And then the music became accepted and was extended and was extended and developed, and exported back to the U.S.

　　[A] As a result, its American origins and roots are often quickly forgotten. “happy birthday to you,” for instance ,is such an everyday song that its source, its American copyright, so to speak , is not remembered.

　　[B] But this theory fails to explain why American films, music, and television, programs are so popular in themselves.

　　[C] American in origin, informal clothing has become the world’s first truly universal style.

　　[D] The BBC, for example, banned rock and roll until 1962.

　　[E] American food has become popular around the world too.

　　[F] This spirit is variously described as being young and free, optimistic and confident, informal and disrespectful.

　　[G] It is hardly surprising that the public concern contributes a lot to the spread of the their culture.

　　第七篇：

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　　In the following article, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45 ,choose the most suitable one from the list A-G to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are two extra choices ,which do not fit in any of the gaps .Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.(10 points)

　　Albert Einstein, whose theories on space time and matter helped unravel the secrets of the atom and of the universe, was chosen as “Person of the Century” by Time magazine on Sunday.

　　A man whose very name is synonymous with scientific genius, Einstein has come to represent more than any other person the flowering of 20th century scientific thought that set the stage for the age of technology.

　　“The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic, but technological-----technologies that flowed directly from advances in basic science, ” wrote theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking in a Time essay explaining Einstein’s significance. 41)____

　　Time chose as runner—up President Franklin Roosevelt to represent the triumph of freedom and democracy over fascism ,and Mahatma Gandhi as an icon for a century when civil and human rights became crucial factors in global politics.

　　“What we saw was Franklin Roosevelt embodying the great theme of freedom’s fight against totalitarianism, Gandhi personifying the great theme of individual struggling for their rights, and Einstein being both a great genius and a great symbol of a scientific revolution that brought with it amazing technological advances that helped expand the growth of freedom,” said Time Magazine Editor Walter Isaacson.

　　Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany in 1879. 42)___ He could not stomach organized learning and loathed taking exams.

　　In 1905, however, he was to publish a theory which stands as one of the most intricate examples of human imagination in history. 43)____ Everything else –---mass, weight, space, even time itself----is a variable. And he offered the world his now-famous equation: energy equals mass times the speed of light squared ---E=mc2

　　44)____

　　45)____Einstein did not work on the project.

　　Einstein died in Princeton, New Jersey in 1955.