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Opposition is growing to the Berlin Zoo’s plans to find a new home for Knut, the moneymaking celebrity polar bear whose popularity has been exploited by environmentalists and even Canadian tourism promoters.
No longer cute, and just days before his second birthday, Knut will be given a new home that is expected to include a potential mating partner.
The Berlin Zoo, facing the global economic crisis, can’t afford the estimated $ 13 million it would take to acquire a female and a new home for them to share. “It’s time for him to go—the sooner he gets a new home the better,” said senior bear keeper Heiner Kloes.
But some Berliners are beginning a campaign, collecting petition (情愿书) signatures and arguing that he’s a tourist draw and a symbol as important as the Brandenburg Gate. “He means a lot to many people. When you’re with him you forget your problems,” Hartmut Wiedenroth, co-founder of the campaign, told Spiegel Online.
Knut became an international celebrity in 2007, drawing huge crowds to his cage and triggering sales of thousands of Knut toys and Knut-shaped candies.
The Vancouver-based Canadian Tourism Commission made Knut a major part of its “Canada—Keep Exploring” campaign to draw tourists to the country— and especially to polar bear country in northern Manitoba to see them in their natural habitat. Environmentalists also used the bear to promote the fight against global warming.
But Knut’s popularity diminished as his size increased to 210 kilograms, He was photographed at one point snapping (咬) at a child near his cage. In September his keeper, Thomas Doerflein, died of a heart attack. Doerflein, who became a celebrity himself after nursing the tiny ball of white fur when Knut’s mother rejected him, had been re-assigned shortly after Knut’s first birthday. Some animal rights critics said Knut has been showing unusually aggressive behavior because of his unnatural upbringing.
The Berlin Zoo intends to find a new home for Knut mainly because of .

A．the mother bear deserting him

B．Knut’s aggressive behavior

C．lacking a skillful bear keeper

D．its financial problem

A campaign is being launched in Berlin .

A．in order to keep Knut in the zoo

B．by selling Knut-shaped candies

C．to draw tourists to northern Manitoba

D．to warn people of global warming

The underlined word “triggering” in Paragraph 5 can be replaced by “ ”.

A．decreasing	B．preventing
C．promoting	D．conducting

What would be the best title for the passage?

A．Doerflein, a celebrity of Germany

B．Zoo says Knut must go

C．The polar bear capital of the world

D．Polar bears in Canada

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The Marches were a happy family. Poverty, hard work, and even the fact that Father March was away with the Union armies could not down the spirits of Meg, Jo, Beth,Amy, and Marmee, as the March girls called their mother.
The March sisters tried to be good but had their share of faults. Pretty Meg was often displeased with the schoolchildren she taught; boyish Jo was easy to become angry; golden-haired schoolgirl Amy liked to show up; but Beth, who kept the house, was loving and gentle always.
The happy days passed and darkness came when a telegram arrived for Mrs. March. “Your husband is very ill,” it said, “come at once.” The girl tried to be brave when their mother left for the front. They waited and prayed. Little Beth got scarlet fever (猩红热) when she was taking care of the sick neighbor. She became very ill but began to recover by the time Marmee was back. Then Father came home from the front and at that joyful Christmas dinner they were once more all together.
Three years later the March girls had grown into young womanhood. Meg became Mrs. Brooke, and after a few family troubles got used to her new state happily. Jo had found pleasure in her literary efforts. Amy had grown into a young lady with a talent for design and an even greater one for society. But Beth had never fully regained her health, and her family watched her with love and anxiety.
Amy was asked to go and stay in Europe with a relative of the Marches’. Jo went to New York and became successful in her writing and had the satisfaction of seeing her work published there. But at home the bitterest blow was yet to fall. Beth had known for some time that she couldn’t live much longer to be with the family and in the springtime she died.
News came from Europe that Amy and Laurie, the grandson of a wealthy neighbor, had planned to be married soon. Now Jo became ever more successful in her writing and got married to Professor Bhaer , and soon afterwards founded a school for boys.
And so the little women had grown up and lived happily with their children, enjoying the harvest of love and goodness that they had devoted all their lives to.
56. The members of the March family were Father March, Mrs. March and their _______.
A. four daughters               B. five daughters
C. son and four daughters      D. son and five daughters
57. Who was the most successful in career (事业) among the March girls?
A. Jo.                     B. Beth.                 C. Amy.                 D. Meg.
58. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A. The March Family             B. The March Parents
C. The March Girls            D. The March Relatives
59. It can be inferred from the passage that the March family had ______.
A. both happiness and sadness     B. wealthy neighbors
C. more girls than boys           D. a lot of rich relatives

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Jim suffered heart problems. In conversation he expressed little joy and it seemed that his life was drawing to a close.
When his heart problems led to operation, Jim went through it successfully, and a full recovery was expected. Within days, however, his heart was not beating properly. Jim was rushed back to operation, but nothing was found to explain the cause of his illness. He died on the operating table on the day before his 48th birthday.
Dr. Bruce Smaller, a psychologist (心理学家), had had many conversations with him, and the more he learned, the stranger he realized Jim’s case was. When Jim was a child, his father, a teacher, suffered a heart attack and stayed home to recover. One morning Jim asked his father to look over his homework, promising to come home from school at noon to pick it up. His father agreed, but when Jim returned his father had died. Jim’s father was 48.
“I think all his life Jim believed he killed his father，” Dr. Smoller says.“He felt that if he had not asked him to, too. at his homework，his father would have lived. Jim had been troubled by the idea. The operation was the trial(判决) he had expected for forty years.” Smoller believes that Jim willed himself not to live to the age of 48.
Jim’s case shows the powerful role that attitude (态度) plays m physical health, and that childhood experiences produce far-reaching effect on the health of grown-ups. Although most cases are less direct than Jim’s, studies show that childhood events, besides genes, may well cause such midlife diseases as cancer, heart disease and mental illness.
59. Jim was sent back to operation because__________.
A. his heart didn’t work well                                    B. he expected a full recovery
C. his life was drawing to a close                              D. the first one wasn’t well performed
60. What made Dr. Smaller feel strange about Jim’s case?
A. Jim died at a young age.                                      B. Jim died on the operating table.
C. Both Jim and his father died of the same disease.
D. Jim’s death is closely connected with his father’s.
61. From Smoller’s words, we can infer that__________.
A. Jim’s father cared little about his study           B. Smoller agreed that Jim did kill his father
C. Jim thought he would be punished some day   D. Smoller believed Jim wouldn’t live to the age of 48
62. Which of the following could have strong effect on one’s physical health according to the text?

a. One’s genes.
b. One’s life in childhood.
c. One’s physical education.
d. The date of one’s birthday.
e. The opinions one has about something.

A. a, b, d B. a, b, e C. a, c, e D b, c, d

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I entered high school having read hundreds of books. But I was not a good reader. Merely bookish, I lacked a point of view when I read. Rather, I read in order to get a point of view. I searched books for good expressions and sayings，pieces of information，ideas，themes—anything to enrich my thought and make me feel educated. When one of my teachers suggested to his sleepy tenth-grade English class that a person could not have a “complicated（复杂的）idea” until he had read at least two thought books，I heard the words without recognizing either its irenic(嘲讽)or its very complicated truth. I merely determined to make a list of all the looks I had ever read. Strict with myself，I in chided only once a title I might have read several times.(How，after all. could one read a book more than once?) And I included only those books over a hundred pages in length. (Could anything shorter be a book ?)
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71.On hearing the teacher’s suggestion of reading, the writer thought___________.
A. one must read as many books as possible
B. a student should not have a complicated idea
C. it was impossible for one to read two thousand books
D. students ought to make a list of the books they had read
72. While at high school, the writer ______________.
A. had plans for reading                                           B. learned to educate himself
C. only read book over 100 pages                             D. read only one book several times
73.The underlined please “with finality ”probably means “__________”.
A. firmly                    B. clearly                           C. proudly               D. pleasantly
74.The writer’s purpose in mentioning The Republic is to _____________.
A. explain why it was included in the list            B. describe why he seriously crossed it off the list
C. show that he read the books blindly though they were hard to understand
D. prove that he understand most of it because he had looked at every word
75. The writer provides two book lists to _______________.
A. show how be developed his point of view      B. tell his reading experience at high school
C. introduce the two persons’ reading methods    D. explain that he read many books at high school

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I first went to Harrow in the summer term. The school had the biggest swimming pool I had ever seen. It was a good joke to come up behind a naked boy, and push him into the pool. I made quite a habit of this with boys of my own size or less.
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56. The writer thought Amery“a fair game”because the boy   .
A. looked like an animal                                        B. was fond of games
C. was of similar size                                      D. was good at sports
57. The writer felt“ashamed” because    .
A. he was laughed at by other boys                   B. Amery turned out to be in the same grade
C. he pushed Amery hard and hurt him             D. he played a joke on an outstanding athlete
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A. tried to please Amery                                         B. challenged Amery
C. threatened Amery                                       D. admired his father
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A. The writer could run faster than Amery.               B. The writer liked playing on boys of all sizes.
C. Amery was a student in Grade Four.             D. Amery forgave the writer for his rude behavior.

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Karen, grown up in a very traditional family in the western United States, maintained high moral(道德的) standards throughout her youth.. In 1984,at the age of 23,she married Bill. They were blessed with two children, a boy and a girl.
By 1991 their love had deepened, and they were happy. Later that year, Bill developed a white spot on his tongue. He visited a doctor.
One day shortly after that, Bill called Karen to sit beside him. He said with tears in his eyes that he loved her and wanted to live forever with her. The doctor suspected that he had been infected with HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS.
The family was tested. Bill and Karen’s results were positive. Bill had become infected before he met Katen; then he passed the virus on to Karen. The children’s results were negative. Within three years, Bill was dead. “I don’t know how to express what it is like to watch the once handsome man you love and intend to live with forever dying slowly. I cried many nights. He died three months short of ten years of our marriage,” says Karen. Though a doctor told Karen that she would soon follow her husband into death, she is still alive. The infection has progressed to the early stages of AIDS.
Karen is but one of about 30 million people now living with HIV/AIDS, a figure larger than the combined populations of Australia. Ireland and Paraguay. According to one UN report, Africa has 21 million of these victims. By the turn of the century that number could reach 40 million and the disease will bring on the greatest disaster in human history. Of the world’s sexually active adults aged 15 to 49,1 in 100 has already been infected with HIV. Of these, only 1 in 10 realizes that he or she is infected. In some parts of Africa,25 percent of the adults are infected.
Since the beginning of the spread of AIDS in 1981,about 11.7 million people have died of it. It is roughly calculated that in 1997 alone, about 2,3 million people died of it. Nevertheless, there are fresh reasons for optimism in the battle against AIDS. During the past few years, there has been a drop in new AIDS cases in wealthy nations. In addition, promising drugs hold out hope of better health and longer life.
61.By telling the story of Karen, the author intends to                      .
A. were people against high risk behaviors          B. stress the importance of medical tests
C. express sympathy for AIDS victims                D. show the consequences of AIDS
62.The underlined part in Paragraph 1 most probably means “           ”.
A. were lucky in having                                         B. were asked to adopt
C. regretted having                                                D. gave birth to
63.Bill was suspected of being infected with HIV after   .
A. he got married to Karen                                B.the family members were tested
C.Karen persuaded him to see the doctor             D.he found something wrong with his tongue
64.It can be concluded from the passage that     .
A. promising drugs will soon stop AIDS                    B.the spread of AIDS could be controlled
C.it is hopeless to win the battle against AIDS
D.the death rate of AIDS patients has been reduced

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