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31.There was no_____but to close the road until February. --'!5)U
A.dilemma B.denying C.alternative D.doubt wx*)7Y*
32.I______when I heard that my grandfather had died. tEC`->|
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33.I’m_____passing a new law that helps poor children get better medicine. a?gziCmS?C
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34.In front of the platform,the students were talking with the professor over the quizzes of their_____subjects. 'H|=]n0
A.compulsory B.compulsive C.alternative D.predominant YjTA+1}
35.The tutor tells the undergraduates that one can acquire____in a foreign language through more practice. QmR
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A.proficiency B.efficiency C.efficacy D.frequency
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36.The teacher explained the new lesson_____to the students. [(D^`K<b
A.at random B.at a loss C.at length D.at hand
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37.I shall ___the loss of my reading-glasses in newspaper with a reward for the finder. A.advertise B.inform C.announce D.publish r-]Hm Y x
38.The poor nutrition in the early stages of infancy can ___adult growth. A.degenerate B.deteriorate C.boost D.retard \UR/tlw+/
39.She had a terrible accident,but___she was’t killed. 9 ! 6\8
A.at all events B.in the long run C.at large D.in vain $%5f
40.His weak chest___him to winter illness . pQ/
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A.predicts B.preoccupies C.prevails D.predisposes 7]&ouT
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41.The company was losing money,so they had to lay off some of its employees for three months. hq[RU&\
A.owe B.dismiss C.recruit D.summon kIlK"=
42.The north American states agrreed to sign the agreement of economical and military union in Ottawa. ?RI&7699+
A.convention B.conviction C.contradiction D.confrontation )?qH#>mD6
43 The statue would be perfect but for a few small defects in its base.
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A.faults B.weaknesses C.flaws D.errors di,?`
44.When he finally emerged from the cave after thirty days.John was startlingly pale. A.amazingly B.astonishingly C.uniquely D.dramatically X1GpLy)p
45.If you want to set up a company,you must comply with the regulations laid down by the authorities. Zv8I`/4?
A.abide by B.work out C.check out D.succumb to H6Qb]H.C
46.The school master applauded the girl’s bravery in his opening speech. 3Hg}G#]WS
A.praise B.appraised C.cheered D.clapped oY$
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47.The local government leaders are making every effort to tackle the problem of poverty. D3i`ehh
A.abolish B.address C.extinguish D.encounter /H m),9NN
48.This report would be intelligible only to an expert in computing. G"._]3CPF
A.intelligent B.comprehensive C.competent D.comprehensible YR$)yl
49.Reading a book and listening to music simultaneously seems to be mo problem for them. #vnJJ#uI|>
A.intermittently B.constantly C.concurrently D.continuously ?5yj</W
50.He was given a laptop computer in acknowledgement of his work for the company. 4X^{aIlshk
A.accomplishment B.recognition C.apprehension D.commitment ?*ni5\y5o
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In Mr.Allen’s high school class,all students have to “get married”.However,the wedding ceremonies are not real ones but 51 .These mock ceremonies sometimes become so 52 that the loud laughter drowns out the voive of the “minister”.Even the two students getting married often begin to giggle. Jfkdiyy"
The teacher Mr. Allen,believes that marriage is a difficult and serious business.He wants young people to understand that there are many changes that 53 take place after marriage.He believes that the need for these psychological and financial 54 should be understood before people marry. kk*:S* ,
Mr.Allen does’t only introduce his students to major problems 55 in marriage such as illness or unemployment.He also expose them to nitty-gritty problems they will face every day.He wants to introduce young people to all the trials and 56 that can strain a marriage to the breaking point .He even 57 his students with the problems of divorced men must pay child support money for their wives. {ylhh%t4hi
It has been upsetting for some of the students to see the problems that a married couple often faces. 58 they took the course,they had not worried much about the problems of marriage.However,both students and parents feel that Mr.Allen’s course is valuable and have 59 the course publicly.There statements and letters supporting the class have, 60 the school to offer the course again, V7qc9Gd@I
51. A.duplications B.imitations C.assumption D.fantasies 9*lkx#
52. A.noisy B.artificial C.graceful D.real 1; "t8.*%e
53. A.might B.would C.must D.need QV@NA@;XZ
54. A.issues B.adjustments C.matters D.expectancies
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55. A.to face B.facing C.having faced D.faced ,@b7N[h
56. A.tribulations B.errors C.triumphs D.verdicts 0D*uZ,oBEw
57. A.informs B.concerns C. triumphs D.associates 8%;K#,>
58. A.Until B.Before C.After D.As. d*A(L5;@
59. A.taken B.suggested C.endorsed D.reproched +[sZE
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60. A.confined B.convinced C.compromised D.conceived C<?Huw4R0
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Why do people always want to get up and dance when they hear music? The usual explanation is that there is something embeded in every culture-----that dancing is a “cultural universal”. A researcher in Manchester thingks the impulse may be more deeply rooted than that. He says it may be a reflex reaction. R1%2]?
Neil Todd,a psychologist at the University of Manchester. told the BA that he first got an inkling that biology was the key after watching people dance to deafeningly loud music.“There is a compulsion about it.”he says.He reckoned there might be a more direct,biological,explanation for the disre to dance,so he started to look at the inner ear.
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The human ear has two main functions:hearing and maintaining balance.The standard view is that these tasks are segregated so that organs for balance,for insance,do not have an acoustic function.But Todd says animal studies have shown that the sacculus,which is part of the balance---regulating vestibular system,has retain some sensitivity to sound.The sacculus is especially sensitive to extremely loud noise,above 70 decibel. i{$h]D_fD
“There’s no question that in a contemporary dance environment,the sacculus will be stimulated.”says Todd.The average rave,he says,blares music at a painful 110 to 140 decibels.But no one really knows what an acoustically stimulated sacculus does. 5* d
Todd speculates that listening to extremely loud music is a form of “vestibular self-stimulation”:it gives a heightened sensation of motion. “We don’t know exactly why it causes pleasure.”he says.”But we know that people go to extraordinary length to get it.”He list bungee jumping,playing on swings or even rocking to and fro in a rocking chair as other example of pursuits designed to stimulate the sacculus. c&o|I4|Y,
The same pulsing that makes us feel as though we are moving may make us get up and dances as well,says Todd.Loud music sends signals to the inner ear which may prompt reflex movement. “The typical pulse rate of dance music is around the rate of locomotion.”he says,“It’s quite possible you’re triggering a spinal reflex.” WLTraB[?
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A. a new explanation of music B. a cultural universal questioned 8?S)>-mwv
C. a common psychological abnormality D. a deep insight into human physical movenents Viu+#J;l
62.What intrigued Todd was ______ 5$T>noD
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D.the damages loud music wrecks on human hearing <u"h'e/oW_
63.Todd’s biological explanation for the desire to dance refers to_____ *1Lkde@|{
A.the mechanism of hearing sounds ?d -$lI
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C.the two main functions performed by the human ear Use`E
D.the segregation of the hearing and balance maintaining function WaVP+Ap
64.When the sacculus is acoustically stimulated,according to Todd_____ `W8A*
A.functional balance will be maintained in the ear 6tE<`"P!
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C.decibel will shoot up ?T\m
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D.hearing will occur 0ang^v;q
65.What is the passage mainly about? %#.HFK
A.The human ear does more than hearing than expcted. 0.^9)v*i
B.Dancing is capable of heighten the sensation of hearing cNW [i"
C.Loud music stimulates the inner ear and generates the urge to dance 0@9.h{s@
D.The human inner ear does more to help hear than to help maintain balance. dnby &-+T
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Have you switch off your compter? How about your television? Your video? Your CD player? And even your coffee percolator? Really switched them off,not just pressed the button on some conrtol panel and left your machine with a telltale bright red light warning you that it is ready to jump back to life at your command? iB Ld*B|#K
Because if you haven’t,you are one of the guilty people who help pollute the planet.It does’t matter if you’ve joined the neighborhood recycling scheme,conscientiously sorted your garbage and avoided driving to work.You still can’t sleep easy while just one of those little red lights is glowing in the dark. 4
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The awful truth is that household and office electrical appliances left on stand-by mode are gobbling up energy,even though they are doing absolutely nothing.Some electronic products-----such as CD players----can use almost as much energy on stand-by as they do when running.Others may use a lot less,but as your video player spend far more hours on stand-by than playing anything,the wastage soon adds up. p",HF%
In the US.alone,idle electronic devices consume enough energy to power cities with the energy needs of Chicago or London----costing consumers around $1 billion a year.Power stations fill the atmosphere with carbon dioxide just to do absolutely nothing. H4HWr6
Thoughtless design is partly responseble for the waste.But manufactures only get away with desinging products that waste energy this way because consumers are not sensitive enough to the issue,indeed,while recycling has caught the public imagination ,reducing waste has attracted much less attention. pcM'j#;
But “source reduction”,as the garbage experts like to call the art of not using what you don’t need to use,offers enormous potential for reducing waste of all kinds.With a little intelligent shopping,you can cut waste long before you reach the end of the chain. CW(]6s
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Packaging remains the big villain.One of the hidden consequences of buying products grown or made all around the world,rather than produced locally,is the huge amount of packaging.To help cut the waste and encourage intelligent manufacturers the simplest trick is to look for ultra-light package. U!"+~d)
The same arguments apply to the very light but strong plastic bottles that are replacing heavier glass alternatives,thin-walled aluminum cans,and cartons made of composites that wrap up anything drinkable in an ultra-light package. 5Pis0fa
There are hundreds of other tricks you can discuss with colleagues while gathering around the proverbial water cooler—filling up,naturally,your own mug rather than a disposable plastic cup.But you don’t need to go as far as one website which tells you how to give your friends unwrapped Christmas presents.There are limits to source correctness. *pMgjr
66. Fron the first two paragraphs,the author implies that______ lE+v@Kb:
A.hitch has made life easy everywhere =OIxG}*
B.nobody seems to be innocent in polluting the planet N#')Qz:P
C.recycling can potentially control environmental deterioration ~M 6^%
D.everybody is joining the global battle against pollution in one way or another G)b6Rit
67.The waste caused by household and office electrical appliances on stand-by mode seems to_____ &v+8RY^F=
A.be a long-standing indoor problem B.cause nothing but trouble N\IdZX%u
C.get exaggerated D.go unnoticed So*Q8`"-.
68.By idle electronic devices,the author means those appliances_____ a;eV&~
A.left on stand-by mode <_@ S@t)
B.filling the atmosphere with carbon dioxide L Ty[)
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D.used by those whose words spesk louder than actions r"OVu~ND
69.Ultra-light packaging______ !<