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Imagine a boy from a small village in East Africa, He from a very early age has been looking after cattle. At twelve years old he knows mote about cattle than most of you. However, he has never been to school. Has dais boy ever had any education?
Education is discovering about ourselves and about the people and things around us. All the people who care about us — our parents, brothers , sisters, friends — are our teachers. In fact, we learn something from everyone we meet. We start learning on the day we are born, not on the first day" we go to school . Every day we have new experiences, like finding a bird's nest, discovering a new street in our neighborhood, making friends with someone we didn't like before. New experiences are even more fun when we share them with other people.
Encouragement from the people around us enables us to explore things as much as possible. As we grow up, we begin to find out what we are capable of doing. You may be good at cooking, or singing or playing football. You find this out by doing these things. Just thinking about cooking doesn't tell you if you are good at it.
We learn so much just living from day to day. So why is school important? Of course you can learn some things better at home than at school, like how to do the shopping, and how to help old or disabled people who can' t do everything for themselves. At school, teachers help us to read and write. With their guidance, we begin to see things in different ways.
56. The writer takes the African boy as an example to show that _______.
A. African children are very poor B. some children are unlucky
C. education takes many ways D. schools are of great importance
57. In the eyes of the writer .
A. we have to learn from the people around us B. school is not important at all
C. only the people caring for us can teach us D. education takes place everywhere
58. One can find out what lie is good at by _ .
A. the encouragement of people around B. the teachings of those lie or she meets
C. thinking of it when growing up D. trying mid practicing it
59. How the writer looks at the role of school is that .
A. school is not so important as our living places
B. school enables us to understand the world in other ways
C. school teaches us something useless at home
D. school cannot prepare us for our daily lives
60. The passage tells us that _ .
A. everyone gets education from the day lie or she is born
B. different education trains different classes of people
C. school is absolutely necessary if one wants to understand the world
D. everyone will find out what he or she is good at
B
Among the most heatedly discussed issues about the Chinese film industry in 2004 was probably the absence of a film rating system — claimed to be a vital part of the upcoming China Motion Picture Industry Promotion Law.
The law is expected to offer a legal basis for a wide range of issues that worried the local film industry including copyright infringement(侵犯), online piracy(侵权) of films and pirated films in such forms as VCDs, DVDs, and most recently the so - called compressed DVDs.
"The film rating or classification system is very common for film producers, distributors and exhibitors worldwide, as many countries and regions adopted such systems decades ago," said Li Ershi, a Chinese film historian with the Beijing Film Academy.
"The Chinese public and film industry have long called for the establishment of such a law," he added.
Over the years, Chinese films have been put into categories according to their subject matters such as rural, military, industry or urban themes.
On March 1, 1989, the former administration of the Ministry of Radio, Film, and Television issued the Circular Concerning the Examination and Rating System for Certain Films that roughly specified(指定)four types of films as "unsuitable for child audiences."
The regulation was first applied to a controversial film entitled "Widow Village", which features some love scenes.
But this rating system didn't work very well in protecting child audiences at local level.
Over the years, it has often been reported that some film distributors and exhibitors even label some films as "unsuitable for child audiences" in a bid to attract curious viewers.
Since 1994, China has introduced many Western popular films, many of which were rated "PG'' for "Parental Guidance" in the USA but shown in Chinese cinemas without any labels, especially for teenagers or younger children, because China does not have a film rating system. Li said.
61. According to the article, which of the following statements is true?
A. China Motion Picture Industry Promotion Law, with the film rating system in it, has been put into practice.
B. China Motion Picture Industry Promotion Law has been put into practice without the film rating system
C. Both China Motion Picture Industry Promotion law and the film rating system are still under
discussion and revision.
D. The film rating system puts Chinese films into categories according to their subject matters.
62. The film rating system is vital because .
A. it is very common worldwide and many countries and regions have adopted it
B. it can solve all the problems that the Chinese film industry has had so far
C. it is a powerful weapon against some unhealthy Western films coming into China in large numbers
D. the old regulation is out of date and couldn't clearly tell the difference between the suitable and the unsuitable films
63. Which of the following is the best title for the news ?
A. Film Rating System A Must B. China Motion Picture Industry Promotion law
C. New Film Rating System and Old Regulation
D. New Film Rating System Against some Unhealthy Western Films
C
A historic journey across the Solar System reached its end on Friday as a little probe (探测器)took a big step for human knowledge.
The US $ 3 billion Cassini-Huygens mission(使命), a joint project of NASA and the European and Italian space agencies was launched in 1997 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to study Saturn, its rings, its moons and its magnetosphere(磁层) — which surrounds it.
Huygens was named after the Dutch scientist who discovered Titan in 1655, NASA officials said. Some science team members monitoring the flight at the European Space Agency's Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, have waited tens of years to see the first of 750 pictures and other scientific readings from the yellow- skied moon.
" I have been in this mission almost 21 years and I' m very excited," ESA mission manager Jean -Pierre LeBreton said at a news conference on Thursday.
“I’m also quite sure we arc going to see something very special tomorrow (on Friday) "
Timers inside the probe will awaken it just before it enters Titan's atmosphere. Huygens is shaped like a wok(锅) and covered with a heat shield(防护装置) so that it can survive the extreme heat that it will face upon entry. It will then unfold a series of parachutes to slow its fall to the moon's reddish surface, expected to take about 2.5 hours.
As it goes down, the probe will lose its heat shield and unfold its special camera and instruments to
begin collecting information on wind speeds and the makeup of Titan's atmosphere. This is the moment
scientists have been waiting for. This data will then be sent back to Cassini, which will relay it to NASA’s Deep Space Network in California and on to ESA controllers in Darmstadt German. Scientists believe the organic chemical reaction taking place on Titan are similar to the process that gave rise to life on Earth.
Its atmosphere is mostly nitrogen, like Earth, but its surface temperature of about minus 180℃ makes it improper to life.
Titan, believed to be the only moon in the solar system with an atmosphere, is larger than the planets Mercury and Pluto.
64. Huygens was named after .
A. an ESA mission manager B. a Dutch scientist who discovered Saturn in 1655
C. an astronomer who first discovered Titan
D. scientists from NASA and the European and Italian space agencies
65. What does "the yellow-skied moon" refer to?
A. Saturn. B. Titan. C. The moon around the earth. D. Solar System.
66. According to the text, the following statements are all true except ______.
A. scientists think Titan is bigger than Mercury and Pluto
B. the information to be collected by Huygens will be sent back to Cassini, then to NASA's Deep Space Network and last to ESA controllers
C. some science team member have waited decades and seen the first of 750 images and other scientific readings from the yellow-skied moon
D. only NASA. has been working for the project of Huygens
D
I don' t know if I am missing the greatest pleasure of my life. I am no fan of computer games. Some guys forget themselves and forget day and night when they play games. For example, a colleague has been playing since 1 o’clock this morning and now it is 7 o'clock. He is still commanding his army of little people to attack strange-looking animals. Some games could be fun, 1 admit, and it is therefore understandable that such a game catches players. For example, games like Red Storm or some role-play games, you do something and try to outwit(智胜) your computer. You get some fun out of these games. It is understandable that such a game pushes you into a pitfall(陷阱) of pleasures. But some games look quite stupid and simple. Again for example, my colleague has been interested in Stone Age, a cartoon-like game rooted in prehistoric time. The game is well made, full of strange people and animals and you can play on line with partners. You can have reference books to study so as to shortcut your rivals(对手) and increase your own conquering power.
I believe some kinds of games are really created for adults. But seeing these adults play the simple games with such interest, I just wonder if there is something wrong with me and if I am losing the greatest possible fun of my life. I ask why I don' t bother playing such games and why I seem to have some aversion(讨厌) to such games. I have no answers. Certainly computer games is no my idea of a good time. I would rather listen to some music or read a book. Take music for example. Good music tops my list of pleasures. Nothing could beat music, all in a harmony of sounds and emotions. But how about games? Why an I so strongly biased(偏见) against such games?
67. From the passage we know that ______.
A. the author is a fan of computer games. B. the author spends much time playing computer games
C. the author once played a whole night D. the author doesn't like playing computer games
68. In this passage, the author tells us a fact that ______.
A. some computer games are interesting enough to attract people
B. many people fall into a dangerous pitfall
C. many people are suffering a lot from the computer games
D. computer games are pitfalls for most players
69. The underlined word "bother" here means ______.
A. make trouble B. concern about C. disturb D. confuse
70. The author has a pleasure to ______.
A. make a computer game B. to read books C. to listen to good music D. ask himself questions
E
"Calling tower," the pilot's voice crackled. "This is an emergency!" The radio operator in the control tower looked at his watch. It was 3:15 p.m. Lieutenant Charles Taylor and five Navy bombers were in trouble. "We are off course. We cannot see land…repeat…we cannot see land."
The control tower grew silent. The operator garbed (戴上) his microphone. "What is your position? We are not sure of our position," Lieutenant Taylor replied. "We seem to be lost." Taylor had over 2,500 hours of flight time. What was happening?
The tower called back: "Assume bearing(方位) due west." "We don't know which way is west," Taylor replied. "Everything is wrong…strange… We cannot be sure of any direction…Even the ocean looks odd…" The radio operator told Taylor to fly north "with the sun on the left" until he reached a Naval Air Station. Anyone could find the sun, especially a good pilot like Taylor. Soon the radio crackled again. "We have just passed over a small island," said the pilot. "No other land in sight." That was the last message Flight 19 sent to the radio tower. Five Navy bombers were lost. They had left the Naval Air Station for a routine(常规的) training flight at 2:00 p.m., December 5, 1945. Each plane had enough fuel to fly more than a thousand miles. The weather was sunny and mild. Pilots from other flights had not seen anything strange there. So what happened? How could five Navy bombers and their crews just disappear?
The search for the five bombers covered 380,000 square miles of land and sea. Hundreds of boats and planes searched large areas of the Atlantic, the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, the mainland of Florida, and many neighboring islands. Some of the boats were aircraft carriers, destroyers, and submarines. They searched the area for weeks. Nothing was ever found. No life rafts. No wreckage. Not even an oil slick(浮油). Oil from the engines should float on the surface, even if everything else had sunk.
71. The pilot knew that they were in trouble when ______.
A. The radio operator warned him B. The emergency light was suddenly on
C. The engine failed to work D. He couldn't be sure of his flying route
72. Which of the following fact is not true for the five Navy bombers?
A. They could not find out the direction. B. A small island was in sight.
C. They could not find the sun. D. They saw no other land.
73. What made the disappearance so mysterious?
a. The control tower grew silent. b. The bombers had a lot of fuel.
c. The weather was good. d. No strange happening was reported by other flights.
A. (a) (b) (c) B. (a) (b) (d) C. (a) (c) (d) D. (b) (c) (d)
74. What was the most unusual for the search?
A. There was no life raft. B. There was no wreckage.
C. There was no oil slick. D. There was no "SOS" call.
75. The result of the search for the five bombers was that _____.
A. they went for a very important mission B. they went to some very important places
C. they went out of earth D. they went somewhere no one "knew

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