1、1综合阅读（一）A The famous director of a big and expensive movie planned to film a beautiful sunset over the ocean， so that the audiences could see his hero and heroine in front of it at the end of the film as they said goodbye to each other forever. He sent his camera crew （全体工作人员） out one evening to fil
2、m the sunset for him. The next morning he said to the men， “Have you provided me with that sunset？” “No， sir， ” the men answered. The director was angry. “Why not？” he asked. “Well， sir， ” one of the men answered， “were on the east coast here， and the sunsets in the west. We can get you a sunrise ov
3、er the sea， if necessary， but not a sunset.” “But I want a sunset！” the director shouted. “Go to the airport， take the next flight to the west coast， and get one.” But then a young secretary had an idea. “Why dont you photograph a sunrise， ” she suggested， “and then play it 2backwards？ Then itll loo
4、k like a sunset.” “Thats a very good idea！” the director said. Then he turned to the camera crew and said， “Tomorrow morning I want you to get me a beautiful sunrise over the sea.” The camera crew went out early the next morning and filmed a bright sunrise over the beach in the middle of a beautiful
5、 bay. Then at nine oclock they took it to the director. “Here it is， sir， ” they said， and gave it to him. He was very pleased. They all went into the studio. “All right， ” the director explained， “now our hero and heroine are going to say goodbye. Run the film backwards so that we can see the sunse
6、t behind them.” The “sunset” began， but after a quarter of a minute， the director suddenly put his face in his hands and shouted to the camera crew to stop. The birds in the film were flying backwards， and the waves on the sea were going away from the beach. 1. One evening， the director sent his cam
7、era crew out _ . A. to film a scene on the sea B. to find an actor and an actress 3C. to watch a beautiful sunset D. to meet the audience 2. Why did the director want to send his crew to the west coast？ A. Because he changed his mind about getting a sunset. B. Because he was angry with his crew. C.
8、Because he wanted to get a scene of sunset. D. Because it was his secretarys suggestion. 3. The director wanted to film a sunset over the ocean because _ . A. it went well with the separation of the hero and heroine B. when they arrived at the beach it was already in the evening C. it was more movin
9、g than a sunrise D. the ocean looked more beautiful at sunset 4. Which of the following is TRUE？ A. The crew had to follow the heroines advice. B. If you want to see a sunrise， the west coat is the place to go. C. The camera crew wasnt able to film the scene the first day. D. The director ordered hi
10、s crew to get the “sunset” in the end. B 4Europe is now the biggest market for organic food in the world， having grown by 25 percent a year over the past 10 years. Denmarks agriculture minister herself is an organic farmer. The UK market for organic food grew by 55 percent in 2006， while the food ma
11、rket as a whole grew by only one percent. Yet only seven percent of British shoppers account for nearly 60 percent of organic sales. However popular the idea of organic farming may be， it is still an interest for only a few people. So what makes the idea of organic farming popular？ Organic farming m
12、eans farming with natural materials， rather than with man-made fertilizers or pesticides （农药）. Organic farmers rely on many methods such as crop rotation （农作物的轮作） and the use of resistant varieties， because they are necessary for organic farmers to compensate for the shortage of man-made chemicals.
13、Organic farming is often supposed to be safer than traditional farming for the environment. Yet after a long research on organic farming worldwide for a number of years， science continues to be against this opinion. The House of Commons committee on agriculture publicized that， even with complete re
14、search work， it would fail to find any scientific 5evidence to prove “that any of claims made for organic farming is always true”. However， the talk about the benefits of organic farming is going on. This is partly because many people depend on their individual farm， the soil， the weather， and so on
15、. 5. The first paragraph mainly tells us _ . A. organic farming has been performed only in Europe over the past 10 years B. governments of European countries have cared less about organic farming C. organic farming is far from being as popular as expected D. European countries need organic food more
16、 than the other countries in the world 6. The underlined words “compensate for” in Paragraph 2 probably mean “_”. A. argue for B. care for C. struggle for D. pay for 7. What can we know about organic farming？ A. It refers to farming with natural materials， instead of chemical fertilizers. B. It refe
17、rs to farming with chemical fertilizers rather than natural fertilizers. C. It refers to farming with soil rather than any other thing. 6D. It refers to growing crops with man-made fertilizers and pesticides. 8. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage？ A. The UKs agriculture minister
18、 is an organic farmer. B. Organic farming is popular with young people. C. Farmers make use of many different kinds of methods to improve the organic sales system. D. Ninety-three percent of British shoppers dont buy organic products. C In 2004， NASAs Opportunity rover （探测器） found evidence in Martia
19、n soils that water had once flowed across the surface there， excitedly hopes that the red planet may once have supported original life. But a new study throws some cold water and a big handful of salt on those hopes. “Liquid water is required by all species on Earth and weve assumed that water is th
20、e very least that would be necessary for life on Mars， ” said study team member Nicholas J. Tosca， a Harvard University researcher. “However， to really assess Mars we need to consider the properties of its water. 7Not all of Earths waters are able to support life， and the limits of earth life are sh
21、arply defined by waters temperature， acidity and salinity （咸度）.” Tosca and his team analyzed salt deposits （熔岩） in the 4-billion-year-old Martian rock investigated by Opportunity. The new analysis shows that the water that would have flowed across these ancient Martian rocks may have had a lot of sa
22、lt. “Our sense has been that while Mars is a bad environment for supporting life today， long ago it might closely resemble Earth， ” said Andrew H. Knoll， also of Harvard and on the study team. “But this result suggests quite strongly that even as long as four billion years ago， the surface of Mars w
23、ould have been challenging for life. No matter how far back we look into the history of Mars， we may never see a point at which the planet really looked like Earth.” The research was presented in February at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston. Hal
24、ophiles， or organisms that can tolerate high-salinity waters， are known to exist in places on Earth. But they likely changed from organisms that lived in purer waters， scientists think， making it unlikely that life would actually arise first 8in extremely salty waters. “The high salinity， however， d
25、oesnt rule out （排除） life forms of a type weve never know， ” Knoll added， “but life that could originate and stay in such a salty setting would require biochemistry different from any known among even the most strong lives on Earth.” Knoll and Tosca also say the finding doesnt rule out the possibilit
26、y that less salty waters once flowed on the planet. We just tell the world the real information that we have known. Please refer to and analyze it. We hope we can learn more about it in the future. 9. What differs from before is that now we know _ . A. there may be no life on Mars B. there may be li
27、ves on Mars C. there may be liquid water on Mars D. there may be no liquid water on Mars 10. According to the passage， what decide the limits of earth life？ A. Only the salinity of the water. B. Only the temperature of the water. C. Both A and B. D. Waters temperature， acidity and salinity. 11. Acco
28、rding to the latest study， _ . 9A. the life may arise in extremely salty waters B. if we go back far enough， we know how the Mars looks like the earth C. the Martian rock investigated by Opportunity may exist about four billion years D. the result of the latest study will be presented in next year 1
29、2. What can be inferred from the passage？ A. There couldnt be any life on Mars. B. There must have been some lives on Mars. C. We ever saw some lives living in very salty water. D. There cant be any lives living in pure water. D Not the sexism， but a question： Why are girls so girly？ For the past ha
30、lf-century， feminists （女权主义者） ， their opponents and armies of knowledge have debated the differences between men and women. Only in the past few years have scientists been able to use imaging technology to look inside mens and womens heads to survey whether those sexuality differences have roots in
31、the brain. No exact results have appeared from these studies yet， but now a new functional magnetic resonance （核磁共振） imaging （FMRI） study of 10children offers at least one explanation for some common social behaviors： Girls tend to care about one-on-one relationships with their BFFs （best friends fo
32、rever） ， while the brains of boys tend to have group activities and competitions with other boys. So whats actually going on inside these young brains？ Scientists asked 34 healthy kids， aged 8 to 17， to look at pictures of 40 other boys and girls and judge how much they would like to interact with t
33、hem online. The kids were asked to rate those in the photos on a level from 0 （“not interested at all”） to 100 （ “very interested”）. The NIMH scientists told the kids that their ratings would be showed to the boys and girls in the pictures， and the scientists said they would arrange online chats bet
34、ween the kids and those they liked. The chats were supposed to start two weeks later. On the appointed day， the study volunteers were once again brought into the NIMH lab. This time， researchers monitored the kids brain activities by using FMRI while showing them the same pictures. The participants were asked to guess which of the kids in the pictures （the same kids they had rated and who， they believed， knew those ratings） would like to interact with them.
