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SYDNEY: As they sat sharing sweets beside a swimming pool in 1999, Shane Gould and Jessicah
Schipper were simply getting along well, chatting about sport, life and " anything else that came up."
Yet in Sydney next month, they will meet again by the pool, and for a short time the friends will race
against each other in the 50-meter butterfly (蝶泳) in the Australian championships at Homebush Bay.
Gould, now a 47-year-old mother of four, has announced she will be making a return to elite
competition (顶级赛事) to swim the one event, having set a qualifying (合格的) time of 30.32 seconds
in winning gold at last year"s United States Masters championships. Her comeback comes 32 years after
she won three golds at the Munich Olympics. Schipper, now a 17-year-old from Brisbane with a bright
future of going to Athens for her first Olympics, yesterday recalled (回忆) her time with Gould fie years
us train, " Schipper explained." It seemed as if we had long been god friends. I don"t know why. We just
started talking and it went from there."
" She had a lot to share with all of us at that camp. She told us stories about what it was like at big
meets like the Olympics and what it"s like to be on an Australian team. It was really interesting."
Next time, things will be more serious. " I will still be swimming in the 50m butterfly at the nationals,
so there is a chance that I could actually be competing against Shane Gould," said Schipper, who burst onto
the scene at last year"s national championships with second places in the 100m and 200m butterfly. |
| 1. What is the passage mainly about? |
A. Stories happening in swimming competitions.
B. Two women swimmers winning Olympic golds.
C. Lessons learned from international swimming championships.
D. Friendship and competition between two swimmers. |
| 2. Gould and Schipper are going to _____. |
A. talk about sport and life
B. go back to elite competition
C. set a qualifying time and win gold
D. take part in the same sports event |
| 3. Gould won her three Olympic golds when she was _____. |
A. 15
B. 17
C. 22
D. 30 |
| 4. The underlined word" it" in the fifth paragraph probably refers to _____. |
A. the Olympics
B. the youth camp
C. the friendship
D. the Australian team |
| 5. What Schipper said showed that she _____. |
A. was no longer Gould"s friend
B. had learned a lot from Gould
C. was not interested in Gould"s stories
D. would not like to compete against Gould |
答案
| 1-5: DDACB |
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Cannes will rock to the sound of a cancan dance this year when Moulin Rouge by the Australian director
Baz Luhrmann opens the French film festival (电影节) in May. The musical stars Nicole Kidman as a singer,
and John Leguizamo as the artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. It will be competing for the Palme d"Or, the
festival"s top prize. The festival runs to May 21.
The American actor Tommy Lee Jones, 54, has married his longtime girlfriend, Dawn Maria Laurel, 36,
in a private wedding in San Antonio. "It wasn"t a big to-do," said Fred Biery, a U. S. District Judge who
performed the service. He refused to discuss things further. "These are very private people," he said.
Loretta Lynn is being treated for a very bed cold in Tennessee and will miss several appearances. The
country singer, 65, was admitted to a hospital near her home in Hurricane Mills. "She is in good condition,
but the doctors are watching her closely," a spokeswoman said.
The French-Algerian singer Enrico Macias was named a United Nations peace messenger. Enrico joins
eight other people who act as goodwill envoys (使者) for the United Nations, among them are the writer Elie
Wiesel and the basketball player Magic Johnson. |
| 1. We can learn from the text that Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is ______. |
A. a figure in a film
B. a dancer in a show
C. a country singer
D. a prize winner |
| 2. We know from the text that ______. |
A. Moulin Rouge won the top prize in a film festival
B. Loretta Lynn is under the doctors" care
C. eight people serve as the UN goodwill envoys
D. Fred Biery was Tommy Lee Jones" assistant |
| 3. This text most probably appears in ______. |
A. a book on film stars
B. a film review in a magazine
C. a newspaper
D. a notice |
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LONDON (Reuters)-Organic fruit, dalivered right to the doorstep. That is what Gabriel Gold prefers,
and he is willing to pay for it. If this is not possible, the 26 year-old computer technician will spend the
extra money at the supermarket to buy organic food.
"Organic produce is always better," Gold said,"The food is free of pesticides (农药), and you are
generally supporting family farms instend of large farms. And more often than not it is locally(本地)
grown and seasonal, so it is more tasty." Gold is one of a growing number of shoppers buying into the
organic trend, and supermarkets across Britain are counting on more like him as they grow their organic
food business. But how many shoppers really know what they are getting, and why are they willing to pay
a higher price for organic produce? Market research shows that Gold and others who buy organic food can
generally give clear reasons for their preferences-but their knowledge of organic food is far from complete.
For example, small amounts of pesticides can be used on organic products. And about three quarters of
organic food in Britain is not local but imported (进口) to meet growing demand ."The demand for organic
food is increasing by about one third every year, so it is a very fast-growing market," said Sue Flock, a
specialist in this line of business. |
| 1. More and more people in Britain are buying organic food because _____. |
A. they are getting richer
B. they can get the food anywhere
C. they consider the food free of pollution
D. they like home-grown fruit |
| 2. Which of the following statements is true to the facts about most organic produce sold in Britain? |
A. It grows indoors all year round.
B. It is produced outside Britain.
C. It is grown on family farms.
D. It is preduced on large farms. |
| 3. What is the meaning of "the organic trend" as the words are used in the text? |
A. growing interest in organic food.
B. better quality of organic food
C. rising market for organic food.
D. higher prices of organic food |
| 4. What is the best title for this news story? |
A. Organic food-healthy, or just for the wealthy?
B. The making of organic food in Britain.
C. Organic food-to import or not?
D. Good qualities of organic food |
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Airplanes are polluters. They"re as noisy as a rock concert, and send out poisons into the air as well as
dump millions of pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year. By 2050, emissions (排放)
from planes are expected to become one of the largest contributors to global warming.
That"s why researchers at MIT are designing a completely new type of airplane for NASA that will
enable greener airplanes to take flight before 2050.
The 180-passenger D"double bubble" series was designed to replace the Boeing 737 class aircraft, the
most popular jetliner in the world right now. The design is called a "double bubble" because it uses two
partial cylinders (气缸) placed side by side. Those two cylinders create a wider structure that looks like two
soap bubbles joined together.
In today"s commercial airplanes, air flows directly into the engines located on the plane"s wings. That
high-speed air flow drags on the plane, and requires more fuel to overcome the design inefficiency.
MIT"s design changes all that. By moving the engines to the plane"s tail, they take in slower moving air
present in the wake of the fuselage (机舱). Less drag means less fuel is needed to get the plane the same
distance.
Burning less fuel can help passengers" wallet as well as the environment. The environmental implications
of saving energy are as just as clear: the fewer emissions that planes spout into the atmosphere, the healthier
our planet.
But for passengers, we still have a couple decades to wait before any of these planes make it onto the
runway. NASA"s goal is to make sure the planes that MIT has designed can take off by 2035. |
| 1. The best feature of the double bubble flight is that _____. |
A. it will make no noise
B. it will hold more passengers
C. it is designed to save fuel
D. it needs no runways to take off |
| 2. Which of the following is NOT true according to the text? |
A. Emission from planes are contributing the most to the global warming
B. Airplanes are very noisy for the environment
C. MIT"s new design will save passengers" money
D. It"s expected that NASA"s goal will be realize by the year 2035. |
| 3. What"s the main idea of the text? |
A. Here is Boeing 733"s terminal
B. Researchers are designing greener aircraft
C. Passengers will enjoy lower prices
D. Airlines attract passengers with new planes |
| 4. The passage will come from a ____. |
A. News report
B. Science fiction
C. Travel diary
D. Business magazine |
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Beldon and Canfield are two seashore towns, not far apart. Both towns have many hotels, and in summer
the hotels are full of holiday-makers and other tourists.
Last August there was a fire at the Seabreeze Hotel in Beldon. The next day, this news appeared on page
two of the town"s newspaper. The Beldon Post:
FIRE AT SEABREEZE
Late last night firemen hurried to the Seabreeze Hotel and quickly put out a small fire in a bedroom. The
hotel manager said that a cigarette started the fire. We say again to all our visitors: "Please don"t smoke
cigarettes in bed." This was Beldon"s first hotel fire for five years.
The Canfield Times gave the news in these words on page one:
ANOTHER BELDON HOTEL CATCHES FIRE
Last night Beldon firemen arrived just too late to save clothing, bedclothes and some furniture at the
Seabreeze Hotel. An angry holiday-maker said, "An electric lamp probably started the fire. The bedroom lamps
are very old at some of these hotels. When I put my bedside light on, I heard a funny noise from the lamp." We
are glad to tell our readers that this sort of adventure does not happen in Canfield.
What are the facts, then? It is never easy to find out the exact truth about an accident. There was a fire at
the Seabreeze Hotel last August: that is one fact. Do we know anything else? Yes, we know that firemen went
to the hotel.
Now what do you think of the rest of the "news"? |
| 1. Which of the following best gives the main idea of this text? |
A. Beldon and Canfield are both good places for tourists in summer.
B. A fire broke out night in Seabreeze Hotel last summer.
C. It was not easy to find out exact truth from newspapers.
D. Two newspapers gave reports on the same matter. |
2. Which of the following are probably facts?
a. The fire broke out in a bedroom at the hotel.
b. A cigarette started the fire.
c. An old lamp started the fire.
d. The fire broke out at night.
e. There has never been a fire in Canfield. |
A. b and c
B. a and d
C. c and e
D. a and c |
| 3. The Canfield Times used the headline like this in order to make its readers think ______. |
A. hotels in Beldon often catch fire
B. hotels in Beldon don"t often catch fire
C. this was the second fire at the Seabreeze Hotel
D. Beldon was a good place except that hotels there are not quite safe |
| 4. The Canfield newspaper gave a report just the opposite to the Beldon Post by saying that ______. |
A. the bedroom lamps were very old at the Seabreeze Hotel
B. the bedroom lights made funny noise when the fire took place
C. the firemen failed to save clothing, bedclothes and other things
D. such accidents never happened in Canfield for the past 5 years |
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Oldest Ever Galaxy Found
WASHINGTON(AP)-Astronomers believe they"ve found the oldest thing they"ve ever seen in the universe:
It"s a galaxy (星系) far, far away from a time long, long ago.
Hidden in a Hubble Space Telescope photo released earlier this year is a small point of light that European
astronomers now calculate is a galaxy from 13.1 billion years ago. That"s a time when the universe was very
young, just about 600 million years old. That would make it the earliest and most distant galaxy seen so far.
By now the galaxy is so ancient it probably doesn"t exist in its earlier form and has already changed into
bigger neighbors, said Matthew Lehnert of the Paris Observatory, lead author of the study published online
Wednesday in the journal Nature.
"We are looking at the universe when it was a 20th of its current age," said California Institute of
Technology astronomy professor Richard Ellis, who wasn"t part of the discovery team."In human terms,
we"re looking at a 4-year-old boy in the lifetime of an adult."
While Ellis finds the basis for the study "pretty good", there have been other claims about the age of distant
space objects that have not held up to careful examination. And some experts have questions about this one.
But even the doubters praised the study as important and interesting.
The European astronomers calculated the age after 16 hours of observations from a telescope in Chile that
looked at light signatures of cooling hydrogen gas.
Earlier this year, astronomers had made a general estimate of 600 to 800 million years after the Big Bang
(宇宙大爆炸) for the most distant unclear points of light in the Hubble photograph, which was presented at
an astronomy meeting back in January.
In the new study, researchers focused on a single galaxy in their analysis of hydrogen"s light signature,
further finding out the age. Garth Illingworth of the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was the
scientist behind the Hubble image, said it provided confirmation for the age using a different method,
something he called amazing "for such faint objects". |
| 1. We can learn from the passage that ______. |
A. the universe came into being about 14 billion years ago
B. the galaxy is believed to be the same as it was just born
C. the newly-discovered galaxy is the oldest one in the universe
D. the galaxy had traveled about 600 millions before the scientists found it |
| 2. We can infer from the fourth paragraph that ______. |
A. the universe is actually very young
B. the life-time of the universe is surprisingly long
C. the humans have been so able as to see far into the universe
D. what we can see about the universe now is just the tip of the iceberg |
| 3. What did some people doubt according to the fifth paragraph? |
A. The importance of the discovery
B. The truth of the discovery
C. The actual age of the new galaxy
D. The size of the new galaxy |
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