第1部分：詞匯選項(xiàng)(第1～15題，每題1分，共15分)
1. Sally likes to tease her brother about his girl friends.
A. charm
B. laugh at
C. criticize
D. respect
2. America's emphasis on the importance of education for everyone has spurred scientific research.
A. encouraged
B. endangered
C. endorsed
D. enlarged
3. You have to follow the guide whose sole interest is to cover all spots according to his strict
schedule.
A. obvious
B. simple
C. only
D. assumed
4. In 1861, it seemed inevitable that the Southern states would break away from the Union.
A. strange
B. certain
C. inconsistent
D. proper
5. Techniques to harness the energy of the sun are being developed.
A. convert
B. store
C. utilize
D. receive
6. First editions of certain popular books cannot be obtained for love or money.
A. at any place
B. at any price
C. in any language
D. in any country
7. In a bullfight, it is the movement, not the color of objects that arouses the bull.
A. confuses
B. excites
C. scares
D. diverts
8. Sulfur has occasionally been found in the earth in an almost pure state.
A. regularly
B. accidentally
C. sometimes
D. successfully
9. Many fine cooks insist on ingredients (成分) of the highest quality.
A. demand
B. rely on
C. prepare for
D. create
10. The company recommended that a new petrol station (should) be built here.
A. ordered
B. insisted
C. suggested
D. demanded
11. It hard for the young people to imagine what severe conditions their parents once lived under.
A. sincere
B. hard
C. strict
D. tight
12. They agreed to settle the dispute by peaceful means.
A. solve
B. determine
C. untie
D. complete
13. The police contended that the difficulties they faced were too severe.
A. argued
B. predicted
C. said
D. suggested
14. He expressed concern that the ship might be in distress.
A. despair
B. difficulty
C. need
D. danger
15. The most pressing problem any economic system faces is how to use its scarce resources.
A. puzzling
B. difficult
C. terrifying
D. urgent 第2部分：閱讀判斷(第16～22題，每題1分，共7分)
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Bill Gates: Unleashing Your Creativity
I've always been an optimists and I suppose that is rooted in my belief that the power of creativity and intelligence can make the world a better place.
For as long as I can remember, I've loved learning new things and solving problems. So when I satdown at a computer for the first time in seventh grade, I was hooke
D. It was a chunky old teletype ma-chine and it could barely do anything compared to the computers we have today. But it changed my life.
When my friend Paul Allen and I started Microsoft 30 years ago, we had a vision of“a computeron every desk and in every home,” which probably sounded a little too optimistic at a time when mostcomputers were the size of refrigerators. But we believed that personal computers would change their world. And they have.
And after 30 years, I'm still as inspired by computers as I was back in seventh grade.
I believe that computers are the most incredible tool we can use to feed our curiosity and inven-tiveness-to help us solve problems that even the smartest people couldn't solve on their own.
Computers have transformed how we learn, giving kids everywhere a window into all of theworld's knowledge. They're helping us build communities around the things we care about and to stayclose to the people who are important to us, no matter where they are.
Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love todo. He calls it "tap-dancing to work". My job at Microsoft is as challenging as ever, but what makesme "tap-dancing to work" is when we show people something new, like a computer that can recognizeyour handwriting or your speech, or one that can store a lifetime's worth of photos, and they say, "Ididn't know you could do that with a PC!"
But for. all the cool things that a person can do with a PC, there are lots of other ways we can putour creativity and intelligence to work to improve our worl
D. There are still far too many people in theworld whose most basic needs go unmet. Every year, for example, millions of people die from diseasesthat are easy to prevent or treat in the developed world.
I believe that my own good fortune brings with it a responsibility to give back to the world. My wife, Melinda, and I have committed to improving health and education in a way that can help as manypeople as possible.
As a father, I believe that the death of a child in Africa is no less poignant or tragic than the deathpf a child anywhere else, and that it doesn't take much to make an immense difference in thesechildren's lives.
I'm still very much an optimist, and I believe that progress on even the world's toughest problemsis possible--and it's happening every day. We're seeing new drugs for deadly diseases, new diagnostictools, and new attention paid to the health problems in the developing world.
I'm excited by the possibilities I see for medicine, for education and, of course, for technology.And I believe that through our natural inventiveness, creativity and willingness to solve tough prob-lems, we're going to make some amazing in all these area in my life.
16 A computer was as big as an icebox when Bill Gates was a high school student.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned
17. Bill Gates has been dreaming of the popularity of computers for his lifetime.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned
18. Bill Gates compares his hard work on a PC to "tap-dancing to work" .
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned
19. To Bill Gates'mind, there is a big difference between the death of the poor's children and the death of the rich's children.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned
20. So far Bill Gates has contributed several dozen billion dollars to the charities.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned
21. Bill Gates and his wife consider it their duty to help the poor better their health and education as much as possible.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned
22. Bill Gates will leave only a small portion of his wealth for his children.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned 第3部分：概括大意與完成句子(第23～30題，每題1分，共8分)
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Ginseng Shows Benefits in Cancer Treatment
Flaxseed slowed the growth of prostate tumors in men, while ginseng helped relieve the fatiguethat cancer patients often feel, US researchers reported on Saturday in two of the first scientificallyrigorous looks at alternative medicine.
The studies reflect doctor's efforts to explore the risks and benefits of foods and supplements thatare routinely taken by their patients with little scientific proof they help. Americans spend between $36 billion and $ 46 billion year on complementary and alternative therapies, according to the NationalCenter for Health Statistics. "Patients are taking these compounds but we need to know if they are do-ing any good or any harm," said Dr. Bruce Cheson of Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, who led a panel on alternative therapies at a meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
In the flaxseed study, researchers at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina and col-leagues evaluated the seed's role as a food supplement in 16I men who were scheduled to undergo sur-gery for prostate cancer. "The growth rate was decreased in the men who got flaxseed," said Dr. NancyDavidson, an oncologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore who is president-elect of ASCO. "Ithink this is fascinating." Flaxseed is rich in omega-3 fatty acids and lignins, a fiber found on the seedcoat. "We were looking at flaxseed because of its unique nutrient profile," said Wendy Demark-Wah-nefried, a researcher in Duke's School of Nursing, who led the study.
Half of the men in the study added 30 grams of flaxseed daily to their diets for about 30 days. Halfof the flaxseed group also went on a low-fat diet. After the surgery, the cancer ceils in both the flax-seed groups grew about g0 to 40 percent slower than the control group.
But Demark-Wahnefried is not ready to prescribe flaxseed. "It's a healthy food. It has a lot of vita-mins and a lot of fiber. But we can not definitely say at this point you should take flaxseed because it isprotective against prostate cancer," she said, adding that flaxseed now needed to be studied to see if itcan prevent prostate cancer.
In the ginseng trial, Debra Barton of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and colleaguestested three different does of the herb on patients with a variety of cancers who were expected to liveat least six months. Twenty-five percent of patients taking a 1, 000-my dose and twenty-seven percentof patients taking a 2, 000-mg does said their fatigue symptorns were "rnoderately better" or "muchbetter". Only 10 percent of those taking a 750-mg dose reported an improvement, which was about thesame as the placebo group. Patients on the trial took Wisconsin ginseng from a single crop that wastested for uniform potency. It was powered and given in a capsule form. "I wouldn't have predictedthis, I have to admit," Davidson said in an interview. "We might want to test this in a large scale.
The flaxseed study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the ginseng study was supported by US Public Health Service grants.
23. Paragraph 2__________
24. Paragraph 4__________
25. Paragraph 5 __________
26. Paragraph 6__________
A.the motivation offlaxseed study
B.the study on ginseng displays its good promise
C.the tots’responsibilities led them to carry out these two studies
D.ginseng is as good to cancer patients as flaxseed
E.the methods and results of the study on flaxseed
F.a different opinion Oil the use of flaxseed
27. Doctors in the US wanted to know__________
28. Both studies on flaxseed and ginseng show__________
29. It is the unique nutrient profile of flaxseed__________
30. In the ginseng trial the researchers tested the potency of ginseng__________
A.that led the researchers in Duke’S School of Nursing to study it
B.by giving different dose of the herb to patients with different cancers
C.whether the foods and supplements patients took every day were good or not
D.though both flaxseed and ginseng are all healthy alternative medicines
E.that either of them iS benefieial to cancer patients
F.because we still have to see if flaxseed can prevent prostate cancer 第4部分：閱讀理解(第31～45題，每題3分，共45分)
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第一篇Single-parent Kids Do Best
Single mums are better at raising their kids than two parents—at least in the bird world. Mother zebra finches have to work harder and raise fewer chicks on their own, but they also produce more at-tractive sons who are more likely to get a mate.
The finding shows that family conflict is as important an evolutionary driving force as. ecologicalfactors such as hunting and food supply. With two parents around, there's always a conflict of inter-ests, which can have a detrimental effect on the quality of the offspring.
In evolutionary terms, the best strategy for any parent in the animal world is to find someone elseto care for their offspring, so they can concentrate on breeding again. So it's normal for parents to tryto pass the buck to each other. But Ian Hartley from the University of Lancaster and his team won-dered how families solve this conflict, and how the conflict itself affects the offspring.
To find out, they measured how much effort zebra finch parents put into raising their babies.They compared single females with pairs, by monitoring the amount of food each parent collected, andremoving or adding chicks so that each pair of birds was raising four chicks, and each single mum hadtwo—supposedly the same amount of work.
But single mums, they found, put in about 25 per cent more~ effort, than females rearing with theirmate. To avoid being exploited, mothers with a partner hold back from working too hard if the fatheris being lazy, and it s the chicks that pay the price. "The offspring suffer some of the.cost of this con-flict" says Hartley.
The cost does not show in any obvious decrease in size or weight, but in how attractive they are tothe opposite sex. When the chicks were mature, the researchers tested the "fitness" of the male off-spring by offering females their choice of partner. Those males reared by single mums were chosenmore often than those from two-parent families.
Sexual conflict has long been thought to affect the quality of care given to offspring, says zoolo-gist Rebecca Kilner at Cambridge University, who works on conflict of parents in birds. "But the ex-perimental evidence is not great. The breakthrough here is showing it empirically." More surprising,says Kilner, is Hartley's statement that conflict may be a strong influence on the evolution of behav-ior, clutch size and even appearance. "People have not really made that link," says Hartley. A female'sreproductive strategy is usually thought to be affected by hunting and food supply. Kilner says conflictof parents should now be taken into account as well.
31. With which of the following statements would the author probably agree?
A. Single mums produce stronger sons.
B. Single mums do not produce daughters.
C. Two-parent families produce less attractive children.
D. Two-parent families produce more beautiful offspring.
32. According to the passage, in what way does family conflict affect the quality of the offspring?
A. The young males get less care.
B. The young females will decrease in weight.
C. The offspring will become lazy fathers or mothers in the future.
D. The offspring will not get mature easily.
33. What is the relationship between paragraph 4 and paragraph 5?
A. Cause and effect.
B. Experiment and result.
C. Problem and solution.
D. Topic and comment.
34. According to Hartley, which of the following is NOT influenced by sexual conflict?
A. The evolution of the offspring's behavior.
B. The look of the offspring's faces.
C. The number of eggs produced by one offspring at a time.
D. The offspring's body size.
35. According to the passage, people believe that a female's reproductive strategy is influenced by__________
A. an evolutionary driving force
B. a conflict of interests
C. ecological factors
D. the quality of the offspring 第二篇 Prolonging Human Litre
Prolonging human life has increased the size of the human population. Many people alive todaywould have died of childhood diseases if they had been bdrn 100 years ago. Because more people livelonger, there are more people around at any given time. In fact, it is a decrease in death rates, not anincrease in birthrates, that has led to the population explosion.
Prolonging human life has also increased the dependency (依賴) load. In all societies, people whoare disabled or too young or too old to work are dependent on the rest of society to provide for them.In hunting and gathering cultures, old people who could not keep up might be left behind to die. Intimes of famine (饑荒), infants might be allowed to die because they could not survive if their parentsstarved (使挨餓), whereas if the parents survived they could have another child. In most contempora-ry societies, people feel a moral obligation to keep people alive whether they can work or not. We havea great many people today who live past the age at which they want to work or are able to work; wealso have rules which require people to retire at a certain age. Unless these people were able to savemoney for their retirement, somebody else must support them. In the United States, many retired peo-ple live on social security checks which are so little that they must live in near poverty. Older peoplehave more illness than young or middle-aged (中年) people; unless they have wealth or private or gov-ernment insurance, they must often "go on welfare (福利 )" if they have a serious illness.
When older people become senile or too weak and ill to care for themselves, they create graveproblems for their families. In the past and in some traditional cultures, they would be cared for athome until they died. Today, with most members of a household working or in school, there is oftenno one at home who can care for a sick or weak person. To meet this need, a great many nursing homesand convalescent hospitals have been built. These are often profit-making organizations, althoughsome are sponsored by religious and other nonprofit groups. While a few of these institutions are good,most of them are simply "dumping grounds" for the dying in which "care" is given by poorly paid, o-verworked, and under skilled personnel.
36. The writer believes that the population explosion results from __________
A. an increase in birthrates
B. the industrial development
C. a decrease in death rates
D. cultural advances
37. It can be inferred from the passage that in hunting and gathering cultures
A. it was a moral responsibility to keep old-aged people alive
B. infants could be left dead in times of starvation
C. parents had to impart the cultural wisdom of the tribe to their children
D. death was considered to be freedom from hardships
38. According to the passage, which of the following statements about retired people in the United States is true?
A. Many of them have a very hard life.
B. They cannot live a decent life without enough bank savings.
C. They rely mainly on their children for financial support.
D. Most of them live with their children and therefore are well looked after.
39. In Paragraph 3, the phrase "this need" refers to __________
A. the need to prolong the lives of old people.
B. the need to enrich the life of the retired people
C. the need to build profit-making nursing homes
D. the need to take care of sick and weak people
40. Which of the following best describes the writer's attitude toward most of the nursing homes, and convalescent hospitals?
A. Sympathetic.
B. Unfriendly.
C. Optimistic.
D. Critical. 第三篇 Hypertension Drugs Found to Cut Risk of Stroke
Australian doctors declared Monday that a cocktail of simple antihypertensive drugs can lower therisk of patients suffering a repeat stroke hy more than a thir
D. This is the result of their research. Theresearch, presented at a medical conference in Italy over the weekend, has been valued highly as a ma-jor breakthrough in stroke prevention.
Strokes kill 5 million people a year, and more than 15 million suffer non-fatal strokes that oftenleave them with useless limbs, slurred speech and other serious disabilities. One in five stroke survi-vors goes on to have a second, often fatal, stroke within five years of the first.
An international six-year study of 6, 100 patients directed from Sydney University found that bytaking two blood pressure-lowering drugs, the risk of secondary strokes can be reduced by up to 40per cent. Even taking one of the commonly available drugs can cut the risk by a third, the study said.The drugs are the diuretic indapamide and the ACE inhibitor1 perindopril, better known by its brandname Coversyl. The combination was effective even in patients who did not have high blood pressure,the researchers said. They even found that the risk of another stroke could be cut by three quarters a-mong the one-in-ten patients who had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, the worst type of stroke, wherethere is direct bleeding into the brain.
Stephen McMahon, who presented the research at the Milan congress of the European Society ofHypertension, said about 50 million people were alive who had suffered at least one stroke. "If most ofthose patients were able to get access to this treatment, it would result in3 maybe the avoidance of half a million strokes a year," the professor told Australia's ABC Radio.
McMahon said doctors had long known that lowering the blood pressure of those with hyperten-sion could help prevent strokes. "What we have shown for the first time is that it do.es not really mat-ter what your blood pressure is; if you have had a stroke, then lowering blood pressure will producelarge benefits, to begin with--even for people whose blood pressure is average or below average," hesaid.
MeMahon said the Milan gathering had heralded the research as a "major breakthrough in the careof patients with strokes—perhaps the biggest step forward that we have made in the last couple of dec-ades".
41. How many-peoples surviving the first stroke may suffer another attack during the following five years?
A. More than 33% of them.
B. Up to 40% of them.
C. 20% of them..
D. 10% of them.
42. Taking two blood pressure-lowering drugs may produce__________less risk of secondary strokes than taking only one such drug.
A. three quarters
B. nearly tour tenths
C. one fifth
D. about one fourteenth
43. Which of the following is NOT a symptom left by strokes?
A. Habitual sleeplessness
B. Losing the function of one or more extremities.
C. Speaking unclearly.
D. Serious disabilities such as facial paralysis.
44. How many strokes may be reduced in a year if most of stroke patients can be treated in the way as the article recommends?
A. 5, 000, 000.
B. 500, 000.
C. 50, 000, 000.
D. 15, 000, 000.
45. What patients among those who have had a stroke will benefit greatly from taking blood pres-sure-lowering drugs?
A. Those whose blood pressure is high.
B. Those whose blood pressure is average.
C. Those whose blood pressure is below average.
D. All of the above 第5部分：補(bǔ)全短文(第46～50題，每題2分，共10分)
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Leukemia
Leukemia is the most common type o{ cancer kids get, but it is still very rare. Leukemia involves the blood and blood-forming organs, such as the bone marrow.
__________ (46)
A kid with leukemia produces lots of abnormal white blood cells in the bone marrow. Usually, white blood cells fight infection, but the white blood cells in a person with leukemia don't work theway they're supposed to. __________(47) The abnormal white blood cells multiply out of control, fillingthe bone marrow and making it hard for enough normal, infection-fighting white blood.cells to form.Other blood cells—such as red blood cells (that carry oxygen in the blood to the body's tissues) andplatelets (that allow blood to clot)—are also crowded out by the white blood cells of leukemia. Thesecancer cells may also move to other parts of the body, including the bloodstream, where they continueto multiply and build up.
Although leukemia can make kids sick, most of the time it is treatable, and kids get better. Al-most all leukemia patients are treated with chemotherapy, which means using anti-cancer drugs.__________ (48)Chemotherapy quickly goes to work, traveling through the blood to the bone marrow.There, the drugs can attack the cancer cells. After several weeks of chemotherapy, many kids begin tofeel better.
Some children with leukemia will also have to have radiation therapy, too.__________(49)
If the cancer isn't getting better from using the usual amounts of chemotherapy and radiation,then a kid with leukemia will probably need more treatment--with higher doses of chemotherapy andradiation finally kill the cancer cells. But this heavy-duty treatment will also har the normal cells inthe kid's bone marrow too, and the bone marrow will no lohger be able to produce normal blood cells.So, doctors will then give a kid or anyone else with bone marrow that is no longer working normalbone marrow tissue from someone else who is healthy.__________(50)
A. The chemotherapy drugs are given through a catheter, a narrow tube that is inserted into a blood vessel, sometimes in the kid's upper chest.
B. Early symptoms of leukemia are often overlooked, since they may resemble symptoms of the flu or other common diseases.
C. This is a special procedure called a bone marrow transplant, and it helps the patient make new blood cells so they can recover from the leukemia.
D. Bone marrow is the innermost part of some bones where blood cells are first made.E. They don't protect the person from infections very well.
F. Radiation therapy uses invisible high-energy waves (similar to X-rays) to kill cancerous cells.
第6部分：完形填空(第51～65題，每題1分，共15分)
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Migrant workers
In the past twenty years, there has been an increasing tendency for workers to move from onecountry to another.__________(51) some newly independent countries have understandably restrictedmost jobs to local people, others have attracted and welcomed migrant workers. This is particularlthe case in the Middle East,__________(52) increased oil incomes have enabled many countries to____________(53) outsiders to improve local facilities.__________(54) the Middle East has attracted oil-workers from the U. S. A. and Europe. It has brought in construction workers and technicians frommany countries,__________(55) South Korea and Japan.
In view of the difficult living and working conditions in the Middle East, it is not__________(56) that the pay is high to attract suitable workers. Many engineers and technicians can earn at least__________(57) money in the Middle East as they can in their own country, and this is a major attrae~tion. An aliied benefit is the low taxation or complete lack of it. This increases the.net amount of payreceived by visiting workers and is very popular with them.
Sometimes a disadvantage has a compensating advantage.__________(58) , the difficult living condi~tions often lead to increased friendship when workers have to depend on each other__________(59) safe-ty and comfort.__________(60), many migrant workers can save large sumsof money partly__________(61)the lack of entertainment facilities. The work is often complex and full of problems but this merelypresents greater challenge to engineers who prefer to find solutions__________(62) problems ratherthan do routine work in their home country.
One major problem which__________(63) migrant workers in the Middle East is that their jobs are temporary ones. They are nearly always on contract, so it is not easy for them to plan ahead with greatconfidence. This is to be expected since no country, welcomes a large number of foreign workers as per-manent residents.__________(64), migrant workers accept thin disadvantage, along with others, because of the__________(65) financial benefits which they receive.
51. A. As
B. Since
C. While
D. Although
52. A. which
B. where
C. when
D. there
53. A. call in
B. call off
C. call up
D. call on
54. A. But
B. Moreover
C. Besides
D. Thus
55. A. include
B. includes
C. including
D. included
56. A. surprised
B. surprisingly
C. surprise
D. surprising
57. A. twice as much
B. twice as many
C. as much as twice
D. as many as twice
58. A. Similarly
B. As a result
C. For example
D. Anyway
59. A. with
B. for
C. about
D. in
60. A. On the contrary
B. In a similar way
C. On the other hand
D. Consequently
61. A. because of
B. on
C. because
D. with
62. A. in
B. about
C. for
D. to
63. A. effects
B. affects
C. detects
D. reflects
64. A. In case
B. In all cases
C. In a case
D. In any case
65. A. considerable
B. considerate
C. considered
D. considering
1. Sally likes to tease her brother about his girl friends.
A. charm
B. laugh at
C. criticize
D. respect
2. America's emphasis on the importance of education for everyone has spurred scientific research.
A. encouraged
B. endangered
C. endorsed
D. enlarged
3. You have to follow the guide whose sole interest is to cover all spots according to his strict
schedule.
A. obvious
B. simple
C. only
D. assumed
4. In 1861, it seemed inevitable that the Southern states would break away from the Union.
A. strange
B. certain
C. inconsistent
D. proper
5. Techniques to harness the energy of the sun are being developed.
A. convert
B. store
C. utilize
D. receive
6. First editions of certain popular books cannot be obtained for love or money.
A. at any place
B. at any price
C. in any language
D. in any country
7. In a bullfight, it is the movement, not the color of objects that arouses the bull.
A. confuses
B. excites
C. scares
D. diverts
8. Sulfur has occasionally been found in the earth in an almost pure state.
A. regularly
B. accidentally
C. sometimes
D. successfully
9. Many fine cooks insist on ingredients (成分) of the highest quality.
A. demand
B. rely on
C. prepare for
D. create
10. The company recommended that a new petrol station (should) be built here.
A. ordered
B. insisted
C. suggested
D. demanded
11. It hard for the young people to imagine what severe conditions their parents once lived under.
A. sincere
B. hard
C. strict
D. tight
12. They agreed to settle the dispute by peaceful means.
A. solve
B. determine
C. untie
D. complete
13. The police contended that the difficulties they faced were too severe.
A. argued
B. predicted
C. said
D. suggested
14. He expressed concern that the ship might be in distress.
A. despair
B. difficulty
C. need
D. danger
15. The most pressing problem any economic system faces is how to use its scarce resources.
A. puzzling
B. difficult
C. terrifying
D. urgent 第2部分：閱讀判斷(第16～22題，每題1分，共7分)
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Bill Gates: Unleashing Your Creativity
I've always been an optimists and I suppose that is rooted in my belief that the power of creativity and intelligence can make the world a better place.
For as long as I can remember, I've loved learning new things and solving problems. So when I satdown at a computer for the first time in seventh grade, I was hooke
D. It was a chunky old teletype ma-chine and it could barely do anything compared to the computers we have today. But it changed my life.
When my friend Paul Allen and I started Microsoft 30 years ago, we had a vision of“a computeron every desk and in every home,” which probably sounded a little too optimistic at a time when mostcomputers were the size of refrigerators. But we believed that personal computers would change their world. And they have.
And after 30 years, I'm still as inspired by computers as I was back in seventh grade.
I believe that computers are the most incredible tool we can use to feed our curiosity and inven-tiveness-to help us solve problems that even the smartest people couldn't solve on their own.
Computers have transformed how we learn, giving kids everywhere a window into all of theworld's knowledge. They're helping us build communities around the things we care about and to stayclose to the people who are important to us, no matter where they are.
Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love todo. He calls it "tap-dancing to work". My job at Microsoft is as challenging as ever, but what makesme "tap-dancing to work" is when we show people something new, like a computer that can recognizeyour handwriting or your speech, or one that can store a lifetime's worth of photos, and they say, "Ididn't know you could do that with a PC!"
But for. all the cool things that a person can do with a PC, there are lots of other ways we can putour creativity and intelligence to work to improve our worl
D. There are still far too many people in theworld whose most basic needs go unmet. Every year, for example, millions of people die from diseasesthat are easy to prevent or treat in the developed world.
I believe that my own good fortune brings with it a responsibility to give back to the world. My wife, Melinda, and I have committed to improving health and education in a way that can help as manypeople as possible.
As a father, I believe that the death of a child in Africa is no less poignant or tragic than the deathpf a child anywhere else, and that it doesn't take much to make an immense difference in thesechildren's lives.
I'm still very much an optimist, and I believe that progress on even the world's toughest problemsis possible--and it's happening every day. We're seeing new drugs for deadly diseases, new diagnostictools, and new attention paid to the health problems in the developing world.
I'm excited by the possibilities I see for medicine, for education and, of course, for technology.And I believe that through our natural inventiveness, creativity and willingness to solve tough prob-lems, we're going to make some amazing in all these area in my life.
16 A computer was as big as an icebox when Bill Gates was a high school student.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned
17. Bill Gates has been dreaming of the popularity of computers for his lifetime.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned
18. Bill Gates compares his hard work on a PC to "tap-dancing to work" .
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned
19. To Bill Gates'mind, there is a big difference between the death of the poor's children and the death of the rich's children.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned
20. So far Bill Gates has contributed several dozen billion dollars to the charities.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned
21. Bill Gates and his wife consider it their duty to help the poor better their health and education as much as possible.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned
22. Bill Gates will leave only a small portion of his wealth for his children.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned 第3部分：概括大意與完成句子(第23～30題，每題1分，共8分)
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Ginseng Shows Benefits in Cancer Treatment
Flaxseed slowed the growth of prostate tumors in men, while ginseng helped relieve the fatiguethat cancer patients often feel, US researchers reported on Saturday in two of the first scientificallyrigorous looks at alternative medicine.
The studies reflect doctor's efforts to explore the risks and benefits of foods and supplements thatare routinely taken by their patients with little scientific proof they help. Americans spend between $36 billion and $ 46 billion year on complementary and alternative therapies, according to the NationalCenter for Health Statistics. "Patients are taking these compounds but we need to know if they are do-ing any good or any harm," said Dr. Bruce Cheson of Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, who led a panel on alternative therapies at a meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
In the flaxseed study, researchers at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina and col-leagues evaluated the seed's role as a food supplement in 16I men who were scheduled to undergo sur-gery for prostate cancer. "The growth rate was decreased in the men who got flaxseed," said Dr. NancyDavidson, an oncologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore who is president-elect of ASCO. "Ithink this is fascinating." Flaxseed is rich in omega-3 fatty acids and lignins, a fiber found on the seedcoat. "We were looking at flaxseed because of its unique nutrient profile," said Wendy Demark-Wah-nefried, a researcher in Duke's School of Nursing, who led the study.
Half of the men in the study added 30 grams of flaxseed daily to their diets for about 30 days. Halfof the flaxseed group also went on a low-fat diet. After the surgery, the cancer ceils in both the flax-seed groups grew about g0 to 40 percent slower than the control group.
But Demark-Wahnefried is not ready to prescribe flaxseed. "It's a healthy food. It has a lot of vita-mins and a lot of fiber. But we can not definitely say at this point you should take flaxseed because it isprotective against prostate cancer," she said, adding that flaxseed now needed to be studied to see if itcan prevent prostate cancer.
In the ginseng trial, Debra Barton of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and colleaguestested three different does of the herb on patients with a variety of cancers who were expected to liveat least six months. Twenty-five percent of patients taking a 1, 000-my dose and twenty-seven percentof patients taking a 2, 000-mg does said their fatigue symptorns were "rnoderately better" or "muchbetter". Only 10 percent of those taking a 750-mg dose reported an improvement, which was about thesame as the placebo group. Patients on the trial took Wisconsin ginseng from a single crop that wastested for uniform potency. It was powered and given in a capsule form. "I wouldn't have predictedthis, I have to admit," Davidson said in an interview. "We might want to test this in a large scale.
The flaxseed study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the ginseng study was supported by US Public Health Service grants.
23. Paragraph 2__________
24. Paragraph 4__________
25. Paragraph 5 __________
26. Paragraph 6__________
A.the motivation offlaxseed study
B.the study on ginseng displays its good promise
C.the tots’responsibilities led them to carry out these two studies
D.ginseng is as good to cancer patients as flaxseed
E.the methods and results of the study on flaxseed
F.a different opinion Oil the use of flaxseed
27. Doctors in the US wanted to know__________
28. Both studies on flaxseed and ginseng show__________
29. It is the unique nutrient profile of flaxseed__________
30. In the ginseng trial the researchers tested the potency of ginseng__________
A.that led the researchers in Duke’S School of Nursing to study it
B.by giving different dose of the herb to patients with different cancers
C.whether the foods and supplements patients took every day were good or not
D.though both flaxseed and ginseng are all healthy alternative medicines
E.that either of them iS benefieial to cancer patients
F.because we still have to see if flaxseed can prevent prostate cancer 第4部分：閱讀理解(第31～45題，每題3分，共45分)
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第一篇Single-parent Kids Do Best
Single mums are better at raising their kids than two parents—at least in the bird world. Mother zebra finches have to work harder and raise fewer chicks on their own, but they also produce more at-tractive sons who are more likely to get a mate.
The finding shows that family conflict is as important an evolutionary driving force as. ecologicalfactors such as hunting and food supply. With two parents around, there's always a conflict of inter-ests, which can have a detrimental effect on the quality of the offspring.
In evolutionary terms, the best strategy for any parent in the animal world is to find someone elseto care for their offspring, so they can concentrate on breeding again. So it's normal for parents to tryto pass the buck to each other. But Ian Hartley from the University of Lancaster and his team won-dered how families solve this conflict, and how the conflict itself affects the offspring.
To find out, they measured how much effort zebra finch parents put into raising their babies.They compared single females with pairs, by monitoring the amount of food each parent collected, andremoving or adding chicks so that each pair of birds was raising four chicks, and each single mum hadtwo—supposedly the same amount of work.
But single mums, they found, put in about 25 per cent more~ effort, than females rearing with theirmate. To avoid being exploited, mothers with a partner hold back from working too hard if the fatheris being lazy, and it s the chicks that pay the price. "The offspring suffer some of the.cost of this con-flict" says Hartley.
The cost does not show in any obvious decrease in size or weight, but in how attractive they are tothe opposite sex. When the chicks were mature, the researchers tested the "fitness" of the male off-spring by offering females their choice of partner. Those males reared by single mums were chosenmore often than those from two-parent families.
Sexual conflict has long been thought to affect the quality of care given to offspring, says zoolo-gist Rebecca Kilner at Cambridge University, who works on conflict of parents in birds. "But the ex-perimental evidence is not great. The breakthrough here is showing it empirically." More surprising,says Kilner, is Hartley's statement that conflict may be a strong influence on the evolution of behav-ior, clutch size and even appearance. "People have not really made that link," says Hartley. A female'sreproductive strategy is usually thought to be affected by hunting and food supply. Kilner says conflictof parents should now be taken into account as well.
31. With which of the following statements would the author probably agree?
A. Single mums produce stronger sons.
B. Single mums do not produce daughters.
C. Two-parent families produce less attractive children.
D. Two-parent families produce more beautiful offspring.
32. According to the passage, in what way does family conflict affect the quality of the offspring?
A. The young males get less care.
B. The young females will decrease in weight.
C. The offspring will become lazy fathers or mothers in the future.
D. The offspring will not get mature easily.
33. What is the relationship between paragraph 4 and paragraph 5?
A. Cause and effect.
B. Experiment and result.
C. Problem and solution.
D. Topic and comment.
34. According to Hartley, which of the following is NOT influenced by sexual conflict?
A. The evolution of the offspring's behavior.
B. The look of the offspring's faces.
C. The number of eggs produced by one offspring at a time.
D. The offspring's body size.
35. According to the passage, people believe that a female's reproductive strategy is influenced by__________
A. an evolutionary driving force
B. a conflict of interests
C. ecological factors
D. the quality of the offspring 第二篇 Prolonging Human Litre
Prolonging human life has increased the size of the human population. Many people alive todaywould have died of childhood diseases if they had been bdrn 100 years ago. Because more people livelonger, there are more people around at any given time. In fact, it is a decrease in death rates, not anincrease in birthrates, that has led to the population explosion.
Prolonging human life has also increased the dependency (依賴) load. In all societies, people whoare disabled or too young or too old to work are dependent on the rest of society to provide for them.In hunting and gathering cultures, old people who could not keep up might be left behind to die. Intimes of famine (饑荒), infants might be allowed to die because they could not survive if their parentsstarved (使挨餓), whereas if the parents survived they could have another child. In most contempora-ry societies, people feel a moral obligation to keep people alive whether they can work or not. We havea great many people today who live past the age at which they want to work or are able to work; wealso have rules which require people to retire at a certain age. Unless these people were able to savemoney for their retirement, somebody else must support them. In the United States, many retired peo-ple live on social security checks which are so little that they must live in near poverty. Older peoplehave more illness than young or middle-aged (中年) people; unless they have wealth or private or gov-ernment insurance, they must often "go on welfare (福利 )" if they have a serious illness.
When older people become senile or too weak and ill to care for themselves, they create graveproblems for their families. In the past and in some traditional cultures, they would be cared for athome until they died. Today, with most members of a household working or in school, there is oftenno one at home who can care for a sick or weak person. To meet this need, a great many nursing homesand convalescent hospitals have been built. These are often profit-making organizations, althoughsome are sponsored by religious and other nonprofit groups. While a few of these institutions are good,most of them are simply "dumping grounds" for the dying in which "care" is given by poorly paid, o-verworked, and under skilled personnel.
36. The writer believes that the population explosion results from __________
A. an increase in birthrates
B. the industrial development
C. a decrease in death rates
D. cultural advances
37. It can be inferred from the passage that in hunting and gathering cultures
A. it was a moral responsibility to keep old-aged people alive
B. infants could be left dead in times of starvation
C. parents had to impart the cultural wisdom of the tribe to their children
D. death was considered to be freedom from hardships
38. According to the passage, which of the following statements about retired people in the United States is true?
A. Many of them have a very hard life.
B. They cannot live a decent life without enough bank savings.
C. They rely mainly on their children for financial support.
D. Most of them live with their children and therefore are well looked after.
39. In Paragraph 3, the phrase "this need" refers to __________
A. the need to prolong the lives of old people.
B. the need to enrich the life of the retired people
C. the need to build profit-making nursing homes
D. the need to take care of sick and weak people
40. Which of the following best describes the writer's attitude toward most of the nursing homes, and convalescent hospitals?
A. Sympathetic.
B. Unfriendly.
C. Optimistic.
D. Critical. 第三篇 Hypertension Drugs Found to Cut Risk of Stroke
Australian doctors declared Monday that a cocktail of simple antihypertensive drugs can lower therisk of patients suffering a repeat stroke hy more than a thir
D. This is the result of their research. Theresearch, presented at a medical conference in Italy over the weekend, has been valued highly as a ma-jor breakthrough in stroke prevention.
Strokes kill 5 million people a year, and more than 15 million suffer non-fatal strokes that oftenleave them with useless limbs, slurred speech and other serious disabilities. One in five stroke survi-vors goes on to have a second, often fatal, stroke within five years of the first.
An international six-year study of 6, 100 patients directed from Sydney University found that bytaking two blood pressure-lowering drugs, the risk of secondary strokes can be reduced by up to 40per cent. Even taking one of the commonly available drugs can cut the risk by a third, the study said.The drugs are the diuretic indapamide and the ACE inhibitor1 perindopril, better known by its brandname Coversyl. The combination was effective even in patients who did not have high blood pressure,the researchers said. They even found that the risk of another stroke could be cut by three quarters a-mong the one-in-ten patients who had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, the worst type of stroke, wherethere is direct bleeding into the brain.
Stephen McMahon, who presented the research at the Milan congress of the European Society ofHypertension, said about 50 million people were alive who had suffered at least one stroke. "If most ofthose patients were able to get access to this treatment, it would result in3 maybe the avoidance of half a million strokes a year," the professor told Australia's ABC Radio.
McMahon said doctors had long known that lowering the blood pressure of those with hyperten-sion could help prevent strokes. "What we have shown for the first time is that it do.es not really mat-ter what your blood pressure is; if you have had a stroke, then lowering blood pressure will producelarge benefits, to begin with--even for people whose blood pressure is average or below average," hesaid.
MeMahon said the Milan gathering had heralded the research as a "major breakthrough in the careof patients with strokes—perhaps the biggest step forward that we have made in the last couple of dec-ades".
41. How many-peoples surviving the first stroke may suffer another attack during the following five years?
A. More than 33% of them.
B. Up to 40% of them.
C. 20% of them..
D. 10% of them.
42. Taking two blood pressure-lowering drugs may produce__________less risk of secondary strokes than taking only one such drug.
A. three quarters
B. nearly tour tenths
C. one fifth
D. about one fourteenth
43. Which of the following is NOT a symptom left by strokes?
A. Habitual sleeplessness
B. Losing the function of one or more extremities.
C. Speaking unclearly.
D. Serious disabilities such as facial paralysis.
44. How many strokes may be reduced in a year if most of stroke patients can be treated in the way as the article recommends?
A. 5, 000, 000.
B. 500, 000.
C. 50, 000, 000.
D. 15, 000, 000.
45. What patients among those who have had a stroke will benefit greatly from taking blood pres-sure-lowering drugs?
A. Those whose blood pressure is high.
B. Those whose blood pressure is average.
C. Those whose blood pressure is below average.
D. All of the above 第5部分：補(bǔ)全短文(第46～50題，每題2分，共10分)
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Leukemia
Leukemia is the most common type o{ cancer kids get, but it is still very rare. Leukemia involves the blood and blood-forming organs, such as the bone marrow.
__________ (46)
A kid with leukemia produces lots of abnormal white blood cells in the bone marrow. Usually, white blood cells fight infection, but the white blood cells in a person with leukemia don't work theway they're supposed to. __________(47) The abnormal white blood cells multiply out of control, fillingthe bone marrow and making it hard for enough normal, infection-fighting white blood.cells to form.Other blood cells—such as red blood cells (that carry oxygen in the blood to the body's tissues) andplatelets (that allow blood to clot)—are also crowded out by the white blood cells of leukemia. Thesecancer cells may also move to other parts of the body, including the bloodstream, where they continueto multiply and build up.
Although leukemia can make kids sick, most of the time it is treatable, and kids get better. Al-most all leukemia patients are treated with chemotherapy, which means using anti-cancer drugs.__________ (48)Chemotherapy quickly goes to work, traveling through the blood to the bone marrow.There, the drugs can attack the cancer cells. After several weeks of chemotherapy, many kids begin tofeel better.
Some children with leukemia will also have to have radiation therapy, too.__________(49)
If the cancer isn't getting better from using the usual amounts of chemotherapy and radiation,then a kid with leukemia will probably need more treatment--with higher doses of chemotherapy andradiation finally kill the cancer cells. But this heavy-duty treatment will also har the normal cells inthe kid's bone marrow too, and the bone marrow will no lohger be able to produce normal blood cells.So, doctors will then give a kid or anyone else with bone marrow that is no longer working normalbone marrow tissue from someone else who is healthy.__________(50)
A. The chemotherapy drugs are given through a catheter, a narrow tube that is inserted into a blood vessel, sometimes in the kid's upper chest.
B. Early symptoms of leukemia are often overlooked, since they may resemble symptoms of the flu or other common diseases.
C. This is a special procedure called a bone marrow transplant, and it helps the patient make new blood cells so they can recover from the leukemia.
D. Bone marrow is the innermost part of some bones where blood cells are first made.E. They don't protect the person from infections very well.
F. Radiation therapy uses invisible high-energy waves (similar to X-rays) to kill cancerous cells.
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Migrant workers
In the past twenty years, there has been an increasing tendency for workers to move from onecountry to another.__________(51) some newly independent countries have understandably restrictedmost jobs to local people, others have attracted and welcomed migrant workers. This is particularlthe case in the Middle East,__________(52) increased oil incomes have enabled many countries to____________(53) outsiders to improve local facilities.__________(54) the Middle East has attracted oil-workers from the U. S. A. and Europe. It has brought in construction workers and technicians frommany countries,__________(55) South Korea and Japan.
In view of the difficult living and working conditions in the Middle East, it is not__________(56) that the pay is high to attract suitable workers. Many engineers and technicians can earn at least__________(57) money in the Middle East as they can in their own country, and this is a major attrae~tion. An aliied benefit is the low taxation or complete lack of it. This increases the.net amount of payreceived by visiting workers and is very popular with them.
Sometimes a disadvantage has a compensating advantage.__________(58) , the difficult living condi~tions often lead to increased friendship when workers have to depend on each other__________(59) safe-ty and comfort.__________(60), many migrant workers can save large sumsof money partly__________(61)the lack of entertainment facilities. The work is often complex and full of problems but this merelypresents greater challenge to engineers who prefer to find solutions__________(62) problems ratherthan do routine work in their home country.
One major problem which__________(63) migrant workers in the Middle East is that their jobs are temporary ones. They are nearly always on contract, so it is not easy for them to plan ahead with greatconfidence. This is to be expected since no country, welcomes a large number of foreign workers as per-manent residents.__________(64), migrant workers accept thin disadvantage, along with others, because of the__________(65) financial benefits which they receive.
51. A. As
B. Since
C. While
D. Although
52. A. which
B. where
C. when
D. there
53. A. call in
B. call off
C. call up
D. call on
54. A. But
B. Moreover
C. Besides
D. Thus
55. A. include
B. includes
C. including
D. included
56. A. surprised
B. surprisingly
C. surprise
D. surprising
57. A. twice as much
B. twice as many
C. as much as twice
D. as many as twice
58. A. Similarly
B. As a result
C. For example
D. Anyway
59. A. with
B. for
C. about
D. in
60. A. On the contrary
B. In a similar way
C. On the other hand
D. Consequently
61. A. because of
B. on
C. because
D. with
62. A. in
B. about
C. for
D. to
63. A. effects
B. affects
C. detects
D. reflects
64. A. In case
B. In all cases
C. In a case
D. In any case
65. A. considerable
B. considerate
C. considered
D. considering