第一部分：词汇选项(第1～15题，每题1分，共15分)
下面共有15个句子，每个句子中均有1个词或短语划有底横线，请从每个句子后面所给的4个选项中选择1个与划线部分意义最相近的词或短语。答案一律涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
1 As they move, glaciers push piles of rocks ahead of them.
A toward
B above
C in front of
D alongside of
2 Insects thrive all over, from the hottest deserts to the snow-clad peaks of lofty mountains.
A silently
B totally
C everywhere
D overhead
3 Male lions remain aloof from the day-to-day activities of their families.
A upwind of
B separate from
C exhausted from
D bored with
4 Many photographers prefer to take pictures at twilight when they can take advantage of the special effects of the setting sun.
A at dusk
B at noon
C in the spring
D in the fall
5 The poem is attributed to one of Emily Dickinson's.
A testified as
B handed out by
C identified as
D predicted as
6 The Coriolis force causes all moving projectiles on Earth to be deflected from a straight line.
A spring
B deviate
C be retracted
D be conceived
7 By the time the war broke out, most of the people had already left.
A began
B spoiled the country
C became less widespread
D intervened
8 His marked personality changes were brought about by a series of unfortunate events.
A preceded
B accompanied
C caused
D hastened
9 Penicillin was discovered by chance in 1928.
A finally
B accidentally
C experimentally
D opportunely
10 Bladder wrack, a tough, leathery brown seaweed, clings to rocks tenaciously.
A grows under
B hides under
C sticks to
D yields to
11 Sue was distraught waiting for her mother to come to last night.
A make a social debut
B regain consciousness
C come home in spite of difficulty
D meet her immediately
12 Psychologists have done extensive studies of how well patients comply withdoctors' orders.
A obey
B understand
C improve with
D agree with
13 The Taconic Mountains form part of the dividing line between New York and Massachusetts.
A geographic dispute
B boundary
C scenic attractions
D territory
14 My wife wants me to do away with my shoes.
A dispense with
B get rid of
C do without
D maul
15 The Pop Art of the 1960's used imagery drawn from the everyday world.
A understood by
B approved by
C censored in
D taken from
第二部分：阅读判断(第16～22题，每题1分，共7分)
阅读下面这篇短文，短文后列出7个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断。如果该句提供的是正确信息，请在答题卡上把A涂黑;如果该句提供的是错误信息，请在答题卡上把B涂黑;如果该句的信息在文章中没有提及，请在答题卡上把C涂黑。
Ancient Water From Afar
It streaked across the sky on a warm March evening last year, then crashed into a street in the small town of Monahans, Texas. When seven boys quit their basketball game to inspect the damage, they found a shiny, black grapefruit-size rock settled in the asphalt (沥青). Word of them “flaming rock”traveled quickly in newspapers and on TV. The next day, NASA scientist Everett Gibson arrived and took the meteorite(陨石), later named Monahans 1998, back to a lab in Houston. There researchers broke open the extraterrestrial(地球外的)rock with a hammer and chisel (凿子). To their surprise, they struck water. A team led by Michael Zolensky of the Johnson Space Center reports this discovery in a journal. It's the first time anyone has found liquid water in an object from space-and a suggestion that life may exist outside our planet.
Meteorites containing water are probably not scarce, Zolensky says. But by the time researchers get their hands on the rocks, minerals that trap the water have dissolved away, and the water have evaporated. Worse, some researchers destroy the evidence by cutting meteorites open with rock saws and water. “I'm betting this isn't such a rare find; it's just that people have been mistreating their meteorites, ”Zolensky says.
Of course, Zolensky's team did get a bit lucky. Monahans 1998 was safe in their lab less than two days after it hit the Earth, so they examined an unusually fresh sample. The scientists were keen to find vivid purple crystals of halite (岩盐)inside the meteorite, since halite is a salt mineral usually formed from liquid water. Even more curious were the hundreds of tiny bubbles suspended in the halite crystals. Zolensky's team analyzed the bubbles by shining a laser beam through them and confirmed they were made of salty brine (盐水).
By dating the halite, Zolensky's team found the water trapped inside it formed at least 4.5 billion years ago, back when most scientists believe our solar system was born. That means the briny object any help researchers learn about the gaseous nebulas(星云)that gave rise to our sun and planets.
But how did the meteorite get wet? One possibility is that a passing comet smashed into the rock, dropping off a load of liquid water. Or the rock might have chipped off an asteroid (小行星)that holds pools of fluid. Zolensky's team still needs to study whether the water comes from our own solar system. One thing is certain, however: the Monahans meteorite will fuel the debate on extraterrestrial life, "Water is a life-giver, so if you want to study where life came from in the solar system, you have to follow where water came from,"Zolensky says. A wet rock from space doesn't mean little green men are coming soon to a planet near you, but it does raise hopes that we're not alone in the universe.
16 Scientist find liquid water inside the rock.
A Right
B Wrong
C Not mentioned
17 The meteorite was broken open in California.
A Right
B Wrong
C Not mentioned
18 The Johnson Space Center reported the discovery in the journal Newsweek.
A Right
B Wrong
C Not mentioned
19 Monahans 1998 was formed when the solar system came into being.
A Right
B Wrong
C Not mentioned
20 Monahans 1998 means that little green men are coming soon to a planet near us.
A Right
B Wrong
C Not mentioned
21 The rock clipped off an asteroid that held pools of water.
A Right
B Wrong
C Not mentioned
22 A passing comet smashed into the rock and dropped off a load of liquid.
A Right
B Wrong
C Not mentioned
第三部分：概括大意与完成句子(第23～30题，每题1分，共8分)
阅读下面这篇短文，短文后有2项测试任务：(1)第23～26题要求从所给的6个选项中为第3～6段每段选择1个正确的小标题;(2)第27～30题要求从所给的6个选项中选择4个正确选项，分别完成每个句子。请将答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
Heartbeat of America
1 New York--the Statue of Liberty, the skyscrapers, the beautiful shops on Fifth Avenue and the many theaters on Broadway. This is America's cultural capital. It is also her biggest city, with a population of nearly 8 million. In the summer it is hot, hot, hot and in the winter it can be very cold. Still there are hundreds of things to do and see all the year round.
2 Manhattan is the real center of the city. When people say “New York City,” they usually mean Manhattan. Most of the interesting shops, buildings and museums are here. In addition, Manhattan is the scene of New York's busy night life. In 1605 the first Europeans came to Manhattan from Holland. They bought the island from the Native Americans for a few glass necklaces worth about $ 26 today.
3 Wall Street in Manhattan is the financial heart of the USA. It is also the most important banking center in the world. It is a street of “skyscrapers”. These are those incredible, high buildings, which Americans invented, and built faster and higher than anyone else. Perhaps the two most spectacular skyscrapers in New York are the two towers of the New York World Trade Center. When the sun sets, their 110 floors shine like pure gold.
4 Like every big city, New York has its own traffic system. Traffic jams can be terrible. It's usually quickest to go by subway. The New York subway is easy to use and quite cheap. The subway goes to almost every corner of Manhattan. But it is not safe to take the subway late in night because in some places you could get robbed. New York buses are also easy to use. You see more if you go by bus. There are more than 30,000 taxis in New York. They are easy to see, because they are bright yellow and carry large TAXI signs. Taxis do not go outside the city. However，they will go to the airports. In addition to the taxi fare, people give the taxi driver a tip of 15 percent of the fare's value.
5 Central Park is a beautiful green oasis in the middle of New York's concrete desert. It is surprisingly big, with lakes and woods, as well as organized recreation areas. New Yorkers love Central Park, and they use it all the time. In the winter, they go ice-skating, and in the summer roller-skating. They play ball, ride horses and have picnics. They go bicycling and boating. There is even a children's zoo, with wild birds and animals.
6 Along the east side of Central Park runs Fifth Avenue, once called “Millionaire's Row. ”In the 19th century, the richest men in America built their magnificent homes here. It is still the most fashionable street in the city, with famous department stores.
7 Broadway is the street where you will find New York's best known theaters. But away from the bright lights and elegant clothes of Broadway are many smaller theaters. Their plays an called “off-Broad-way” and are often more unusual than the Broadway shows. As well as many theaters, New York has a famous opera house. This is the Metropolitan, where international stars sing from September until April. Carnegie Hall is the city's most popular concert hall. But night life in New York offers more than classical music and theater. There are hundreds of nightclubs where people go to eat and dance.
23 Paragraph 3 ____________
24 Paragraph 4 ____________
25 Paragraph 5 ____________
26 Paragraph 6 ____________
A The Financial Center of USA
B The Night Life in New York
C The Traffic Facilities of New York
D Shopping Center for the Rich
E New York—An International City
F Central Park—A Place of Recreation for the New Yorkers
27 The island of Manhattan was bought by the Hollanders from the native Americans ____________
28 Central Park is a good place where the New Yorkers can go and ____________
29 Fifth Avenue is the place ____________
30 For those play-lovers who are interested in what is unusual, the small theaters might be more attractive ____________
A do whatever they like for relaxation
B where you can play all kinds of ball games
C than the world famous Broadway
D enjoy the colorful night life of the city
E where the wealthy people would go shopping
F for what seems to be a very small sum today
第四部分：阅读理解(第31～45题，每题3分，共45分)
下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题，每题后面有4个选项。请仔细阅读短文并根据短文回答其后面的问题，从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
第一篇
Eiffel Is an Eyeful
Some 300 meters up, near the Eiffel Tower's wind-whipped summit the world comes to scribble. Japanese, Brazilians. Americans-they graffiti their names, loves and politics on the cold iron-transforming the most French of monuments into symbol of a world on the move.
With Pairs laid out in miniature below, it seems strange that visitors would rather waste time marking their presence than admiring the view. But the graffiti also raises a question: Why, nearly 114 years after it was completed, and decades after it ceased to be the world's tallest structure, is the Tour Eiffel still so popular?
The reasons are as complex as the iron work that graces a structure some 90 stories high. But part of the answer is, no doubt, its agelessness, regularly maintained, it should never rust away. Graffiti is regularly painted over, but the tower lives on.
“Eiffel represents Paris and Paris is France. It is very symbolic,” says Hugues Richard, a 31-year-old Frenchman who holds the record for cycling up to the tower's second floor-747 steps in 19 minutes and 4 seconds, without touching the floor with his feet. “It's iron lady, it inspires us,” he says.
But to what? After all, the tower doesn't have a purpose. It ceased to be the world's tallest in 1930 when the Chrysler Building went up in New York. Yes, television and radio signals are beamed from the top, and Gustave Eiffel, a frenetic builder who died on December 27, aged 91, used its height for conducting research into weather, aerodynamics and radio communication.
But in essence the tower inspires simply by being there-a blank canvas for visitors to make of it what they will. To the technically minded, it's an engineering triumph. For lovers, it's romantic.
“The tower will outlast all of us, and by a long way,” says Isabelle Esnous, whose company manages Eiffel Tower.
31 Why does the author think the Eiffel Tower is transformed into symbol of a world of the move? ____________
A Tourists from all over the world come to the Eiffel Tower by car or by plane.
B Tourists of all nationalities come to scribble on the cold iron of the tower.
C The Eiffel Tower is the tallest building in the world.
D The Eiffel Tower represents all the towers in the world.
32 What seems strange to the author? ____________
A Visitors prefer wasting time scribbling to enjoying the view.
B Visitors spends much time watching other people scribbling.
C Only Japanese, Brazilians and Americans like to mark their presence.
D Scribbling spread from country to country.
33 Which statements is NOT true of Hugues Richard? ____________
A He is a cyclist.
B He is a record holder.
C He climbed 747 steps up the tower in 19 minutes and 4 seconds.
D He cycled up to the tower's second floor.
34 What did the builder use the Eiffel Tower for? ____________
A Sending radio and television signals all over the world.
B Conducting research in various fields.
C Giving people inspiration.
D Demonstrating French culture.
35 Which of the following is nearest in meaning to “(The Eiffel Tower is like) a blank canvas for visitors to make of it what they will”?____________
A Visitors can do whatever they want on the tower.
B Visitors can paint on the tower whatever they want.
C Visitors can imagine freely what the tower represents.
D Visitors can draw on a blank canvas provided by the Tower management company.
第二篇
Investment and Consumption
Investment in the public sector, such as electricity, irrigation, public services and transport (excluding vehicles, ships and planes) increased by about 10%, although the emphasis moved to the transport and away from the other sectors mentioned. Trade and services recorded a 16 % ～17 % investment growth, including a 30 % increase in investment in business premises. Industrial investment is estimated to have risen by 8%. Although the share of agriculture in total gross investment in the economy continued to decline, investment grew by 9 % in absolute equipment. Housing construction had 12% more invested in it in 1964, not so much owing to increased demand, as to fears of new taxes and limitation of building.
Total consumption in real terms rose by close on 11% during 1964, and per capita personal consumption by under 7 %, as in 1963. The undesirable trend towards a rapid rise in consumption, evident in previous years, remained unaltered. Since at current prices consumption rose by 16 % and disposable income by 13 %, there was evidently a fall in the rate of saving in the private sector of the economy. Once again consumption patterns indicated a swift advance in the standard of living. Expenditure on food declined in significance, although consumption of fruit increased. Spending on furniture and household equipment, health, education and recreation continued to increase. The greatest proof of altered living standards was the rapid expansion of expenditure on transport (including private cars) and personal services of all kinds, which occurred during 1964. The progressive wealth of large sectors of the public was demonstrated by the changing composition of durable goods purchased. Saturation (饱和) point was rapidly being approached for items such as the first household radio, gas cookers, and electric refrigerators, whereas increasing purchases of automobiles and television sets were registered.
36 From this passage, we learn that people ____________.
A spent more money than they earned
B saved more money than previously
C invested and consumed at an accelerated pace
D spent their money wisely
37 The author thinks that the trend towards a rapid rise in consumption was “undesirable”because ____________.
A expenditure on luxuries increased
B people were wealthy
C people consumed less
D people saved less
38 Expenditure increased on all the following EXCEPT ____________.
A food
B automobiles
C education
D entertainment
39 It can be inferred from the increase of fruit consumption that ___________.
A people had to spend more on transportation and furniture
B the price of fruit dropped dramatically
C people were more money conscious
D people were more healthy conscious
40 The word "registered" in the last line most probably means ____________.
A marked
B approached
C listed
D booked
第三篇
The Effects of Global Warming on Weather
There are hidden factors which scientists call “feedback mechanisms”. No one knows quite how they will interact with the changing climate. Here's one example: plants and animals adapt to climate change over centuries. At the current estimate of half a degree centigrade of warming per decade, vegetation (植物) may not keep up. Climatologist James Hansen predicts climate zones will shift toward the poles by 50 to 75 kilometres a year—faster than trees can naturally migrate. Species that find themselves in an unfamiliar environment will die. The 1000-kilometer-wide strip of forest running through Canada, the USSR and Scandinavia could be cut by half. Millions of dying trees would soon lead to massive forest fires, releasing tons of CO2 and further boosting global warming.
There are dozens of other possible “feedback mechanism”. Higher temperatures will fuel condensation and increase cloudiness, which may actually damp down global warming. Others, like the “albedo” effect, will do the opposite. The “albedo” effect is the amount of solar energy reflected by the earth's surface. As northern ice and snow melts and the darker sea and land pokes (戳) through, more heat will be absorbed, adding to the global temperature increase.
Even if we were to magically stop all greenhouse-gas emissions tomorrow the impact on global climate would continue for decades. Delay will simply make the problem worse. The fact is that some of us are doing quite well the way things are. In developed world prosperity has been built on 150 years of cheap fossil fuels.
Material progress has been linked to energy consumption. Today 75 percent of all the world's energy is consumed by a quarter of the world's population. The average rich-world resident adds about 3.2 tons of CO2 yearly to the atmosphere, more than four times the level added by each Third World citizen. The US, with just seven per cent of the global population, is responsible for 22 per cent of global warming.
41 “Feedback mechanisms” in paragraph 1 most probably refer to ____________.
A how plants and animals adapt to hidden factors
B how plants and animals interact with the changing climate
C how climate changes
D how climate zones shift
42 We can learn from the passage that ____________.
A some feedback mechanisms may slow down global warming
B the basic facts of global warming are unknown
C developing countries benefit from cheap fossil fuels
D developed countries have decided to reduce their energy consumption
43 James Hansen predicts that the shift of climate zones will be accompanied by ____________.
A the cutting of many trees
B desirable environmental changes
C successful migration of species
D unsuccessful migration of trees
44 It can be inferred from the passage that ____________.
A the developing world has decided to increase its energy consumption
B a third-world citizen adds less than a ton of CO2 yearly to the atmosphere
C the world climate would soon gain its balance if we stopped greenhouse gas emissions
D future prosperity of the world is dependent on cheap fossil fuels
45 Which of the following is the main topic of the passage? ____________
A Impact of global warming on climate.
B Prosperity and cheap fossil fuels.
C Material progress and energy consumption.
D Plants and animals in the changing climate.
第五部分：补全短文(第46～50题，每题2分，共10分)
阅读下面的短文，文章中有5处空白，文章后面有6组文字，请根据文章的内容选择5组文字，将其分别放回文章原有位置，以恢复文章原貌。请将答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
The Building of the Pyramids
The oldest stone buildings in the world are the pyramids. 46 There are over eighty of them scattered along the banks of the Nile, some of which are different in shape from the true pyramids. The most famous of these are the “Step” pyramid and the “Bent” pyramid.
Some of the pyramids still look much the same as they must have done when they were built thousands of years ago. Most of the damage suffered by the others has been at the hands of men who were looking for treasure or, more often, fore stone to use in modern buildings. 47 These are good reasons why they can still be seen today, hut perhaps the most important is that they were planned to last for ever.
48 However, there are no writings or pictures to show us how the Egyptians planned or built the pyramids themselves. 49 Nevertheless, by examining the actual pyramids and various tools which have been found, archaeologists have formed a fairly clear picture of them.
One thing is certain: there must have been months of careful planning before they could begin to build. 50 You may think this would have been easy with miles and miles of empty desert around, but a pyramid could not be built just anywhere. Certain rules had to be followed, and certain problems had to be overcome.
A The dry climate of Egypt has helped to preserve the pyramids, and their very shape have made them less likely to fall into ruin.
B It is practically certain that plans were made for the building of the pyramids because the plans of other large works have fortunately been preserved.
C The first thing they had to do was to choose a suitable place.
D Consequently, we are only able to guess at the methods used.
E Many people were killed while building the pyramids.
F They have stood for nearly 5,000 years, and it seems likely that they will continue to stand for thousands of years yet.
第六部分：完型填空(第51～65题，每题1分，共15分)
阅读下面的短文，文中有15处空白，每处空白给出了4个选项，请根据短文的内容从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案，涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
Singing Alarms Could Save the Blind
If you cannot see, you may not be able to find your way out of a burning building —and that could be fatal. A company in Leeds could change all that 51 directional sound alarms capable of guiding you to the exit.
Sound Alert, a company 52 the University of Leeds, is installing the alarms in a residential home for 53 people in Sommerset and a resource centre for the blind in Cumbria. 54 produce a wide range of frequencies that enable the brain to determine where the 55 is coming from.
Deborah Withington of Sound Alert says that the alarms use most of the frequencies that can be 56 by humans. “It is a burst of white noise 57 people say sounds like static on the radio,” she says.“Its life-saving potential is great. ”She conducted an experiment in which people were filmed by thermal-imaging cameras trying to find their way out of a large 58 room. It 59 them nearly four minutes to find the door 60 a sound alarm, but only 15 seconds with one.
Withington studies how the brain 61 sounds at the university. She says that the 62of a wide band of frequencies can be pinpointed more easily than the source of a narrow band. Alarms 63 the same concept have already been installed on emergency vehicles.
The alarms will also include rising or falling frequencies to indicate whether people should go up 64 down stairs. They were 65 with the aid of a large grant from British Nuclear Fuels.
51 A without
B with
C having
D selling
52 A run by
B changed by
C decorated by
D criticized by
53 A slow
B deaf
C blind
D lame
54 A Alarms
B Alarm
C The alarm
D The alarms
55 A noise
B sound
C music
D bell
56 A watched
B produced
C learnt
D heard
57 A where
B what
C that
D how
58 A smoked
B smoke-filled
C filled with smoke
D smoke-filling
59 A has taken
B takes
C took
D will take
60 A on
B near
C without
D from
61 A processes
B produces
C possesses
D proceeds
62 A feature
B quality
C diagram
D source
63 A basis on
B base on
C basing on
D based on
64 A or
B and
C but
D otherwise
65 A developed
B determined
C discovered
D delivered
参考答案
第一部分：
1 C 2 C 3 B 4 A 5 C 6 B 7 A 8 C 9 B 10 C 11 B 12 A 13 B 14 B 15 D
第二部分：
16 A答案在第一段最后一句。句中说：“人们第一次从来自太空的物体中发现有液态水。”
17 B应为Houston而不是California。
18 C原文并未明确指出哪种报纸，更未提到Newsweek一词。
19 A答案在倒数第二段。即该段中第一句所说“Zolensky团队发现岩石中的水分至少是在45亿年前形成太阳系时就存在于其中的”。
20 B答案在倒数第一段最后一句。
21 A答案在最后一段第三句。即“这块岩石可能显示有一个小行星上面曾经有过水池”这句话。
22 A答案在最后一段第二句话，陨石上的水可能是彗星留下来的。
第三部分：
23 A本段讲的是有关华尔街的情况，华尔街是美国的金融中心。
24 C这一段介绍了纽约的交通设施，如地铁、公共汽车和出租车，以及使用时应注意的地方。
25 F第五段集中介绍了中央公园。
26 D这一段不长，简单地介绍了纽约的第五大街，这是富人的购物天堂。
27 F原句在语法上已经完整，填入的部分是有关价格的，当时荷兰人买下曼哈顿的价钱在今天看来仅是个微不足道的小数。表示价格用介词for，这里for的后面跟的是what引导的名词性从句。
28 A这里填入的是和动词go并列的成分，在所给的六个选项中符合条件的只有A和D，但从意义上看应该填入的是A。
29 E place提示了后面很有可能是一个用where引导的定语从句，在六个选项中有两个用where开始的从句，但B的意义显然不符，故应用E。
30 C句中的more attractive提示了后面很可能有用than引导的从句。
第四部分：
31 B第一段提供了答案。
32 A第二段第一句中的句型would rather do something than do something else，也可以用prefer doing something to doing something else的句型来表达。所以，A是正确答案。
33 C第四段告诉我们，Hugues Richard蹬车上塔，打破世界纪录。C不是正确选项，因为他cycling up to the tower’s second floor，而不是climbing up the tower。
34 B选项A不是正确选项，因为Gustave Eiffel没有也不可能使用该塔向全世界发射电视信号。第五段的最后一句提供了答案。
35 C第六段的大意是：对不同的人，埃菲尔铁塔有不同的象征意义。
36 C从本篇文章可以得知：A人们支出大于收入;B人们比以前更节约用钱了;C人们的投资和消费在加速增长;D人们花钱更精明了。
37 C作者认为消费的快速增长是“不良”的原因是：A奢侈品的消费增加了;B人们富有了;C人们消费减少了;D人们储蓄减少了。
38 A下列消费都有所增加，只有什么没增加?A食物;B汽车;C教育;D娱乐。
39 D由水果消费的增长可以推断出：A人们不得不在交通工具和家具上花更多的钱;B水果的价格大大降低;C人们更加重视金钱了;D人们更加重视健康了。
40 A文章最后一行中的“registered”的意思是：A明显的;B接近;C列举;D预定。
41 B第一段中的“feedback mechanisms”的意思最可能是：A动植物是如何适应隐蔽因素的;B动植物是如何与不断变化的气候相互作用的;C气候是如何变化的;D气候带是如何迁移的。
42 A从文章中我们可以得知：A某些反馈机制可能减缓全球变暖的速度;B全球变暖的基本事实还不为人所知;C发展中国家从廉价的矿物燃料中获益;D发达国家打算降低能耗。
43 D预测气候带的迁移将由下列哪一项伴随进行?A许多树木被砍伐;B有利的环境变化;C物种的成功迁移;D树木的不成功迁移。
44 B从文章可以推断出：A发展中国家打算增加能源的消耗;B第三世界每年向大气层释放的二氧化碳，人均不超过一吨;C如果我们停止排放引起温室效应的废气，全球的气候就会获得平衡;D未来世界的繁荣靠廉价的矿物能源。
45 A本篇文章的主题是：A全球变暖给气候带来的影响;B繁荣与廉价的矿物能源;C物质进步与能源消耗;D气候变化过程中的动植物。
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46 F第一句话说金字塔是世界上最古老的石头建筑，F说：“它们已经屹立了将近五千年并且似乎会继续存在数千年”，以实际数字说明了第一句，因此应选F。
47 A A说：“埃及干燥的气候有助于保持金字塔，金字塔自身的形状也使之不容易毁坏。”后一句的主语these就是指这两个原因。
48 B B说：“几乎可以确定的是(埃及人)为建造金字塔制定了施工方案，因为有些其他大型建筑的工程图已被幸运地保存下来”，后一句说：“然而没有文字记录或图片告诉我们埃及人如何设计或建造金字塔。”这两句在意思上形成转折。
49 D根据本段前面两句的意思，这里应选D：“因此，我们只能猜测他们使用的方法。”consequently是表达因果关系的连接性词语，有很强的衔接力。
50 C本段首句说有一件事是确定无疑的，即他们(指埃及人)开工前一定花了数月时间仔细设计建造方案，C说：“他们要做的第一件事就是选址”，和第一句意思连贯，而且下文中的this只能指选址这件事。
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文章大意：声音警报是一家由利兹大学设立的公司。该公司现在正在为位于萨莫塞特的一家盲人收容所和位于卡姆布雷亚的一家盲人资源中心安装此种装置。这种警报器发出的频率范围广，使人脑可以判断出声音的来源。这种警报器也是容纳了声频的升降，以指示人们上下楼。这种设备是得到英国核燃料组织的大笔资助才开发成功的。
51 B空格后是一种装置，用它来改变火灾时找不到出口的危险境况。表达“用……装置”这层意思就要用介词with。其他几项均不符合句子的意思。
52 A Sound Alert是一家公司的名字，a company是Sound Alert的同位语，从句义判断，应选择run by，意思“由……经营的”。其他的选项虽然语法正确，但都与句义不符。
53 C从文章的标题，以及文章内容和本句后面部分resource center for the blind，可以推断这里最好的选择就是C。
54 D因为这种警告装置已在上文中提到：第一段中的directional sound alarms，第二段中的installing the alarms in a residential home…，所以，这里的alarms是特指，要用定冠词。选项C是错误的，因为它是单数形式。
55 B句子的前半句有a wide range of frequencies，发出来的应该是sound，而不是令人烦躁的noise。用music或bell都有些突然，与上下文的意思不连贯。
56 D文章一直在讨论警报器、声音和波长，所以首先排除选项A;从上下文的意思看，不可能是选项B和C，因为警报器的制造，就是为了让失明的人听到。
57 C选择A、B、D均不能构成语义连贯的句子，而且语法上也有问题。选项C能使句子结构成为“It is…that”的强调句型。
58 B从所给的选项可以看出，这里要表达的意思是“烟火弥漫的房间”。有了这个理解，现在要做的就是选择正确的表达形式。A是“烟熏的”，D是“使……烟火弥漫的”，所以意思不对，C填入后就出现filled with smoke room，不符合语法。只有B是正确的选项。
59 C这里显然是“It takes somebody+time+动词不定式”的句型，但选择什么时态是关键。从上句看，应选择一般过去时，因为整个段落是对一次试验的描写，而且上面一句也使用了一般过去时。
60 C后半句的one指上半句中的a sound alarm。该句上半句和下半由but连接，表示相反的意思，从后半句的with可以看出，两个相对比的事物是：the door without a sound alarm和the door with a sound alarm。所以选择C。
61 A选项B、C和D显然是错误的，因为词义不符。只有选择A是答案。句子的意思是，Withington在她的大学里研究大脑如何处理声音。
62 D句子中的more…than表示该句是对两样事物的对比。than后面是the source of a narrow band，这里的narrow和前半句的wide形成反比，从上下文中可以看出，the soure司of a narrow band of(frequencies)是和the source of a wide band of frequencies形成对比。
63 D这个句子有主语alarms，有谓语have been installed，这里应填入动词的分词形式。Be based on是常用的搭配，所以，应选择动词的过去分词形式。选项A的basis是名词，明显是错的。
64 A根据上半句中的rising or falling frequencies，这里应填入or，与上半句表达的意思相一致。音频升高表示上楼，音频降低表示下楼。
65 A首先确定主语They指的是第一句中的主语The alarms，后半句说这种设备得到大笔资助。根据上文内容，我们知道资助的目的是开发这种alarms，所以应该选择developed。