The United States is on the verge of losing its leading place in the world’s technology. So says more than one study in recent years. One of the reasons for this decline is the parallel decline in the number of U.S. scientists and engineers.
Since 1976, employment of scientists and engineers is up 85 percent. This trend is expected to continue. However, the trend shows that the number of 22-year-old the near term source of future PhDs is declining. Further adding to the problem is the increased competition for these candidates from other fields law，medicine，business，etc. While the number of U.S. PhDs in science and engineering declines，the award of PhDs to foreign nationals is increasing rapidly.
Our inability to motivate students to pursue science and engineering careers at the graduate level is compounded because of the intense demand industry has for bright Bachelor‘s and Master‘s degree holders. Too often，promising PH.D.candidates, confronting(面临) the cost and financial sacrifice of pursuing their education, find the attraction of industry irresistible.
1. The U.S.will come to lose its leading place in technology probably because ________.
A. scientists and engineers are not employed
B. the number of PH.D. degree holders is declining
C. the number of scientists and engineers is decreasing
D. the number of 22-year-ilds is declining
2. The field of science and engineering is facing a competition from ________ .
A. postgraduates
B. technology
C. such fields as law，medicine and business
D. foreign nationals
3. Large-scale enterprises now need _______.
A. new inventions B. engineers
C. advanced technology D. bright graduates and postgraduates
4. PH.D. candidates "find the attraction of industry irresistible" means that _________.
A. they cannot work for industry any longer
B. they find industry is attracting more and more college students
C. they don’t think they can prevent themselves from working for industry
D. they cannot resist any attraction from all sides
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Do you want to improve the way you study? Do you feel nervous before a test? Many students say that a lack of concentration is their biggest problem. It has bad effects on their ability to study, so do their test results.
If so, use these tips to help you.
Study Techniques
You should always study in the s
ame place. You shouldn’t sit in a position that you use for another purpose. For example, when you sit on a sofa to study, your brain will think it is time to relax. Don’t watch TV while you are studying. Experts warn that your concentration may be reduced by 50 percent if you attempt to study in this way. Always try to have a white wall in front of you, so there is nothing 
to distract (make less concentrated) you. Before sitting down to study, gather together all the equipment you need. Apart from your textbooks, pens, pencils and knives, make sure you have a dictionary. If your study desk or table is needed when you are not studying, store all your equipment in a box beside it.
Your eyes will become tired if you try to read a text which is on a flat surface. Position your book at an angle of 30 degrees.
Be realistic and don’t try to complete too much in one study period. Finish one thing before beginning another. If you need a break, get up and walk around for a few minutes, but try not to telephone a friend or have something to eat.
Test-taking Skills
All your hard work will be for nothing if you are too nervous to take your test. Getting plenty of rest is very important. This means do not study all night before your test! It is a better idea to have a long-term study plan. Try to make a timetable for your study which lasts a few months.
Exercise is a great way to reduce pressure. Doing some form of exercise every day will also improve your concentration. Eat healthy food too.
When you arrive in the examination room, find your seat and sit down. Breathe slowly and deeply. Check the time on the clock during the test, but not too often. Above all, take no notice of everyone else and give the test paper your undivided attention.
41. Which of the following statements is true ac
cording to the passage?
A. You should study in a different place every day, so you don’t get bored.
B. Your concentration will improve if you study and watch TV at the same time.
C. Check the time during the exam at a certain time.
D.Staying up all night is tiring, but you will learn a lot using this method.
42. What does the underlined word “it” refer to?
A. Your study desk or table. B. Your textbook.
C. Your dictionary. D. The equipment you need.
43. What can be inferred from the passage?
A. You shouldn’t look at everyone else during the test.
B.You will have enough energy to deal with and concentrate on your study and exams
better by eating healthy diet.
C. You’ll concentrate more if there is nothing to distract you.
D. If you need a break during study, you can walk around for a few minutes.
In the past, when people had problems, they went to their families or friends to get advice.
Today it is possible to get advice from radio shows, TV programmes
and telephone hot lines, too. A hot line is a telephone line that offers a direct way of getting in touch with advisers .Most hot lines are completely anonymous ,that is to say , callers do not have to say their names or telephone n
umbers. Most hot lines are usually free. Callers do not have to pay for the advice or the phone calls, even if the calls are long distance ones. At some hot lines, the advisers are volunteers. Other hot lines pay their advisers for their work. Usually the advisers are full-time people with years of education and experience, but sometimes, the advisers have only taken a short training before starting to work on the hot lines. All the advisers listen to people and help them solve their problems
56. A hot line is a telephone line_________
A that is hot B through which people get advice
C whose number no one knows D through which callers take a short training
57. the underlined word“anonymous”in the passage means_________in Chinese.
A secret B well-known C exact D wonderful
58. When people call the hot line advisers, they_________
A often give their names and telephone numbers
B generally have to pay for the long distance calls
C usually pay nothing for most of the calls and advice
D always try to get in touch with the volunteer advisers
59. The advisers working at hot lines _________
A have all been trained for a short time
B are all volunteers
C have all received years of education
D are not all paid
60 The writer of the passage seems to think that_________
A hot lines help the callers a lot
B advisers will solve all of the callers’ problems
C people had better pay for the advice
D people will not get advice from their families or friends
Leaves are nature’s food factories. Plants take water from the ground through their roots. They take a gas called carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air. Plants use sunlight to turn water and CO2 into glucose（葡萄糖）.Glucose is a kind of sugar. Plants use glucose as food for energy to grow. The way plants turn water and CO2 into glucose is called photosynthesis (光合作用).That means “putting together with light .” A chemical called chlorophyll helps make photosynthesis happen. Chlorophyll is green. It gives plants their green colour. As summer ends and autumn comes, the days get shorter and shorter. This is how the trees “know” to begin getting ready for winter.
During winter, there is not enough light or water for photosynthesis .The trees will rest, and live on the food they have stored during the summer. They begin to close their food-making factories. The green Chlorophyll disappears from the leaves. Then, we begin to see yellow and orange colours. A few of these colors stay in the leaves all the time. We just can’t see them in the summer, because they are covered up by the green Chlorophyll.
Red and purple colors we see in leaves are made mostly in the autumn. In some trees, like maples, glucose is stored in the leaves after photosynthesis stops. Sunlight and the cool nights of autumn turn this glucose into red. The brown color of trees like oaks is made from wastes left in the leaves.
52 the underlined word“chlorophyll” in the first Para means_________in Chinese.
A 叶绿素 B 氧气 C 胡萝卜素 D 蛋白质
53 The way _________is called photosynthesis.
A Plants get CO2 from the air B plants take water from the ground
C plants turn water and CO2 into glucose. D Plants use glucose as food for energy to grow.
54 The gas called carbon dioxide
is from the_________
A ground B roots C air D sunlight
55 Which of the following is not true?
| A．when autumn and winter come, the days get shorter and shorter. |
| B．During winter trees rest and live on the food they store during the summer.’ |
| C．During winter small amounts of yellow and orange colors are kept in the leaves all the time. |
| D．Trees begin to stop making food in summer. |
American doctors say that mothers who smoke cigarettes before their babies are born may slow the growth of their babies’ lungs. They say reduced lung growth could cause the babies to suffer breathing problems and lung diseases later in life. Doctors in Boston studied 1,100 children. The mothers of some of the children smoked, the other mothers did not. Doctors found that the lungs of the children whose mothers smoked were 8% less developed than the lungs of the children whose mothers did not smoke, and that the children whose mother smoked developed 20% more cold and breathing diseases than other children later in life.
Another recent study found that children had a greater chance of developing lung
cancer if their mothers smoked. The study also showed that the danger of lung cancer increased only for sons and not for daughters, and that the father’s smoking did not affect a child’s chance of developing lung cancer
49. Whose baby would have breathing diseases?
A.Mother who smokes cigarettes after their baby are born
B.Mother who smokes cigarettes before their baby ar
e born
C.Mother who don’t smoke at all
D.Mother whose mother smokes
50. Suppose John’s father was a heavy smoker, so was Mary’ mother. According to this study, _________.
A. John is more likely to develop lung cancer B. Mary is more likely to develop lung cancer
C. Mary and John have the same chance to develop lung cancer
D. Neither John and Mary has the chance to develop lung cancer
51. This passage is to __________.
A. warn us of the danger of smoking before children.
B. warn people with breathing problems not to smoke.
C. warn us that mothers who smoke may affect their children’s health.
D. warn us that fathers who smoke may affect their children as mothers
Saturday, May 24
★ Star Wars Ⅱ
Bus leaves N flagpole at 5:45 pm. Return leaves immediately following the movie .Cost $15. Sign up on SWIS by noon on Thursday.
★BLOCK PARTY!
Bands, volleyball. Starts at 6:00 pm
★Grandin Cinema Presents ：Hearts in Atlantis
A single mother and her son change when a nice-looking stranger enters their life. Grandin , 7：00 pm.
★ NMH Theatre
Present a modern play by Don Nigro, Silverthome Theatre, 7:30 pm. Tickets are $2 for NMH students, teachers and staff and $4 f
or all others. Anyone wishing to book tickets should SWIS Jake kavanagh
Sunday, May 25
Trip to Six Flags Amusement Park! This trip includes the following two films and is only for those students not attending the chat. Cost $ 33. Sign up on SWIS or at the ticket office by noon on Thu
rsday.
★Dolben Cinema presents: Heroes and Heroines
Jennifer Lopez in Anaconda A “National Geographic” film crew is taken hostage by a hunter with a gun, who takes them along in his search for the world’s largest and deadliest snake. Dolben, 8: 00 pm.
★Grandin Cinema Presents: The Others
A woman who lives in a darkened old house 
with her two children becomes sure that there are ghosts in their house. Grandin, 8:00 pm.
45. According to the passage, NMH is a ________.
A company B church C school D travel office
46. How many movies will be on this weekend?
A. One B. Two C. Three D. Four
47. How much would an NMH teacher pay for the modern play by Don Nigro?
A $ 15 B $ 2 C $ 4 D $ 33
48. What can we learn from the passage?
A. All the weekend activities were organized by Jake Kavanagh.
B. Two of the movies mentioned in the ads are about social problems.
C. Those who go to the amusement park can book tickets on Sunday.
D. An NMH student inviting his parents to watch the play together should pay $10
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