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MEGADIM, Israel (AP)-The worst forest fire in Israel's history on Thursday destroyed one of the country's few forested areas, killing at least 36 guards on their way to rescue prisoners there, destroying homes and forcing the evacuation (疏散) of thousands. The fire ran through the Carmel forest in Israel's Galilee, reaching the coastal city of Haifa, jumping from place to place in the forest. The fire broke out around midday and quickly spread and was still burning out of control as midnight approached. Investigators (調(diào)查者) supposed that the fire could have been set accidentally, or it might have been a criminal act, but pretty much ruled out (排除) some sort of attack by a Palestinian group. “This is a huge disaster，” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. “The government is using all means to control the fire.” He said some countries such as Cyprus, Italy, Russia and Greece agreed to provide backup. Most of the dead were Prison Service guards racing through the fire toward a prison to evacuate the prisoners, most of them Palestinians. A tree fell across the road, blocking their bus. Some guards were burned alive inside, while others died as they tried to escape. Fourteen bodies were found near the burnt bus 10 hours after the fire started. The fire heavily damaged one of Israel's few large forests, made up of natural growth and planted areas, a favorite place for camping and a home for dozens of species of wildlife. Forestry workers tried to evacuate animals from the fire. The forest recovered slowly from a fire in 1989, but experts said Thursday's big fire was many times worse.
【小題1】Some Prison Service guards died when they tried to ________.

A．control the running prisoners	B．put out the fierce forest fire
C．get away from the burning bus	D．save the guards trapped in the fire ．

【小題2】According to the investigators, which of the following might be the cause of the fire?

A．Prisoners set the fire purposely.	B．The fire broke out all by itself.
C．A Palestinian group did it.	D．The fire was started by accident.

【小題3】We learn from the text that ________.

A．a(chǎn)ll of the dead were Prison Service guards

B．the forest once suffered a fire in the 1980s

C．the animals didn't suffer from the fire

D．the fire caused 50 deaths altogether ．

【小題4】The text is mainly about ________.

A．the worst forest fire in Israel's history

B．the actual cause of the worst ever forest fire

C．the damage caused by the forest fire

D．the government's efforts in controlling the fire

A newly-published study has shown that loneliness can spread from one person to another, like a disease. Researchers used information from the Framingham Study, which began in 1948. The Framingham Study gathers information about physical and mental health, personal behavior and diet. At first, the study involved about 5,000 people in the American state of Massachusetts. Now, more than 12,000 individuals are taking part.
Information from the Framingham Study showed earlier that happiness can spread from person to person. So can behaviors like littering and the ability to stop smoking.     
University of Chicago psychologist John Cacioppo led the recent study. He and other researchers attempted to show how often people felt lonely. They found that the feeling of loneliness spread through social groups.
Having a social connection with a lonely person increased the chances that another individual would feel lonely. In fact, a friend of a lonely person was 52% more likely to develop feelings of loneliness. A friend of that person was 25% more likely. The researchers say this shows that a person could indirectly be affected by someone’s loneliness.
The effect was strongest among friends. Neighbors were the second most affected group. The effect was weaker on husbands and wives, and brothers and sisters. The researchers also found that loneliness spread more easily among women than men.
The New York Times newspaper reports that, on average, people experience feelings of loneliness about 48 days a year. It also found that every additional friend can decrease loneliness by about five percent, or two and a half fewer lonely days.
Loneliness has been linked to health problems like depression and sleeping difficulties. The researchers believe that knowing the causes of loneliness could help in reducing it.
The study suggests that people can take steps to stop the spread of loneliness. They can do this by helping individuals they know who may be experiencing loneliness. The result can be helpful to the whole social group.
【小題1】What is TRUE about the Framingham Study?

A．It was only conducted in 1948.

B．It involves more than 12,000 participants.

C．It was led by John Cacioppo.

D．It showed that any behavior could spread.

【小題2】 Which statement about the spread of loneliness is true?

A．The spreading effect was the second strongest among friends.

B．No spreading effect was found on husbands and wives.

C．Women are more likely to be affected than men.

D．Brothers are more easily affected than neighbors.

【小題3】 What is the main idea of the passage?

A．Actions should be taken to help lonely people.

B．People feel lonely for many reasons.

C．Ways to fight against loneliness.

D．Lonely people can affect others.

BUKHANNON, West Virginia—Two rescue teams slowly moved along a two-mile path on Monday night to the site of a coal mine explosion that trapped 13 miners, who had not been heard from since the early morning accident．
Meanwhile, at a nearby church, more than 250 family members and friends gathered, waiting for updates（最新報道）on the rescuers’ progress．
The miners were trapped at about 6:30 and many families weren’t informed of the accident until about 10 a．m-more than three hours after it happened．“It’s very upsetting, but you’ve got to be patient, I guess,” said John Helms, whose brother, Terry, was trapped in the mine．
The trapped miners were about 260 feet underground and about 10,000 feet from the Sago Mine’s entrance, said Roger Nicholson, general counsel from International Coal Group．
At a late night news conference, Nicholson said one team had advanced about 4, 800 feet in the four hours since entering the mine just before 6 p．m．Another team entered the mine about 30 minutes later．
He said the crew was very experienced, with some members having worked underground for 30 to 35 years．The miners were equipped with about one hour of breathable oxygen each．The company has not released the names of the miners．
The teams test the air about every 500 feet, and have to disconnect （remove） the power to the phones they use to communicate with the surface before doing that．“ We don’t want to be energizing anything if it’s in an atmosphere with burnable gases,” Kips said．
The cause of the explosion was not immediately known．High levels of carbon monoxide were discovered shortly after the explosion, which delayed rescue efforts, but those levels have since subsided（減退）, authorities said．
【小題1】According to the passage, we can infer that ________．

A．a(chǎn)ll the miners who were trapped underground were still alive

B．communication with the trapped miners was cut off

C．the two rescue teams entered the mine at the same time

D．the rescue started as soon as the accident happened

【小題2】If the first team advanced at an average speed, they could dig about _______ per hour．

A．1,000 feet

B．2,400 feet

C．1,200feet

D．4,800feet

【小題3】Where can the passage be seen?

A．In a magazine．	B．In a newspaper．
C．In a science book．．	D．On an advertisement．

【小題4】Which of the following shows the position where the miners were trapped?

London, Reuters---What could annoy teenagers enough to make them stop hanging out with friends and go home？
No, it’s not a visit from their mothers, and not a threat to take away their cellphones or pocket money.
It’s high-frequency noise. The UK police recently agreed to use a device (裝置) called the Sonic Teenager Deterrent. It sends out a sound that makes teenagers become so impatient and angry that they have to cover their ears tightly and walk away.
The sound is at extreme high-pitch that can be heard by those under 20. The body’s natural ability to detect some wave bands (波段) decreases almost entirely after 20, so few adults can hear the sounds. The black-box device, nicknamed the Mosquito because of its sound, can be fixed to the outside walls of shops, offices and homes. It sounds to youngsters like a crazy insect or a badly played violin. But it causes no physical damage.
A number of police forces and councils have given permission to use the system and want to install it at trouble spots.
Staffordshire Police Inspector Amanda Davies, who has given the device to shopkeepers in the Moorlands area, said," It is controlled by the shopkeepers--if they can see through their window that there is a problem, they turn the device on for a while until the group has run away."
【小題1】The device can be used to ____________.

A．threaten teenagers in public

B．drive away trouble-makers under 20

C．help mothers control their teenage children

D．help the police control shopkeepers

【小題2】 From the passage we can know that ___________.

A．young people often suffer from pains in ears

B．shopkeepers are troubled by noisy insects

C．high-frequency noise is beyond the listening ability of people over 20

D．the police invented a new device to deal with teenagers

【小題3】 The purpose of the writer to write the passage is ________.

A．to advertise a new hi-tech device

B．to tell the reader a piece of news

C．to sell the device to shopkeepers

D．to inform the public as the spokesman of the police

【小題4】Who will welcome the device most?

A．Shopkeepers.

B．The police.

C．Young people.

D．The producer.

OLYMPIA, March 24—Luo Xuejuan, a swimming gold medalist at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, became the first Chinese person to relay the Olympic Flame in Greece on Monday, receiving the flame from the first Olympic torchbearer(火炬手), Greek Alexandros Nikolaidis.
Despite her previous experience as a torchbearer in the Beijing leg of the Athens 2004 torch relay, Luo felt honored and proud of being chosen as the first Chinese torchbearer, the Xihua News Agency reported Luo as saying in an interview.
She talked about the great responsibility that she felt, as she believed she was representing every Chinese athlete and even Chinese person by running her leg of the relay.
Regarding missing the torch lighting ceremony because she had to be in an assigned location to wait for the flame, Luo felt no regret. “Even though I couldn’t see it, I was able to feel the flame light and knew that it was happening at a place nearby,” she said.
Luo expressed her belief that even if people couldn’t communicate with words, the Olympic Flame enables the transmission of the Olympic spirit and brings smiles wherever it might go. In Luo’s mind, the Olympic spirit represents purity, competition, friendship, enthusiasm, peace and harmony.
【小題1】Why didn’t Luo see the torch lighting ceremony?

A. She was late for the ceremony.

B. She was not allowed to go there.

C. She waited for the flame as the next torchbearer.

D. The ceremony took place at a place far away.

【小題2】Choose the best explanation for the underlined word “l(fā)eg” in Paragraph Three.

A. One of the long parts that connect the feet to the rest of the body.

B. The part of a pair of trousers.

C. One of the long thin parts on the bottom of a table.

D. One part of a journey or race.

【小題3】Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Luo Xuejuan was the first Olympic torchbearer in Greece.

B. Luo had never been selected as a torchbearer before.

C. Luo believed that the Olympic flame helped communication among people.

D. Luo felt regretful because she missed the torch lighting ceremony.

【小題4】What’s the best title of the passage?

A. Luo Xuejuan: A Swimming Gold Medalist.

B. The Torch Lighting Ceremony

C. The Torch Relay Had Begun

D. Luo Xuejuan: the First Chinese Torchbearer of Athens Torch Relay

【小題5】This passage is most likely to be seen in a        .

A. novel

B. newspaper

C. magazine

D. textbook

 

Dolphins and sharks are showing up in surprisingly shallow water just off the Florida coast. Mullets, crabs, rays and small fish gather by the thousands off an Alabama pirer. Birds covered in oil are crawling deep into marshes（沼澤）, never to be seen again.
Marine scientists studying the effects of the BP disaster（英國石油公司漏油事件）are seeing some strange phenomena. Fish and other wildlife seem to be fleeing the oil out in the Gulf and clustering in cleaner waters along the coast in a trend that some researchers see as a potentially troubling sign. The animals’ presence close to shore means their usual habitat is badly polluted, and the crowding could result in mass die-offs as fish run out of oxygen. Also, the animals could easily be captured by their enemies.
The nearly two-month-old spill（漏油）has created an environmental disaster in US history as tens of millions of gallons have flown into the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem. Scientists are seeing some unusual things as they try to understand the effects on thousands of species of marine life.
For nearly four hours Monday, a three-person crew with Greenpeace cruised past delicate islands and mangrove-dotted inlets in Barataria Bay off southern Louisiana. They saw dolphins by the dozen frolicking（嬉戲）in the oily sheen（光澤）and oil-tinged pelicans feeding their young. But they spotted no dead animals.
"I think part of the reason why we’re not seeing more yet is that the impacts of this crisis are really just beginning," Greenpeace marine biologist John Hocevar said.
The counting of dead wildlife in the Gulf is more than an academic exercise; the deaths will help determine how much BP pays in damages.
【小題1】What do the marine life react to the BP disaster?

A．Birds crawl deep into caves.

B．Dolphins and sharks show up in deep water.

C．Tens of thousands of marine animals are found dead.

D．Sea creatures flee from oil spill, gathering near seashore.

【小題2】The environmental disaster was caused by     .

A．the damage of the Mexico Gulf ecosystem

B．the lack of environmental sense of BP

C．the nearly two-month-old oil spill

D．the crowding marine life

【小題3】What is John Hocevar’s attitude towards the disaster?

A．Worried.

B．Disappointed.

C．Depressed.

D．Neutral.

【小題4】From the passage, we can infer that         .

A．BP will pay much money according to the number of dead wildlife there

B．marine scientists have seen some strange phenomena

C．the disaster has little influence on dolphins

D．a(chǎn) three-person crew reached no conclusion

【小題5】 The test is most probably a   ______     .

A．newspaper ad	B．book review
C．science news report	D．science fiction story

The government-run command post in Tunis is staffed around the clock by military personnel, meteorologists and civilians. On the wall are maps, crisscrossed with brightly colors arrows that painstakingly track the fearsome path of the enemy.
　　What kind of invader gives rise to such high-level monitoring? Not man, not beast, but the lowly desert locust(蝗蟲). In recent months, billions of the 3-inch-long winged warriors have descended on Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia, blackening the sky and eating up crops and vegetation. The insect invasion, the worst in 30 years, is already creating great destruction in the Middle East and is now treating southern Europe. The current crisis began in late 1985 near the Red Sea. Unusually rainy weather moistened the sands of the Sudan, making them ideal seedbed for the locust, which lays its eggs in the earth. The insect onslaught threatens to create yet another African famine. Each locust can eat its weight (not quite a tenth of an ounce) in vegetation every 24 hours. A good-size swarm of 50 billion insects eats up 100,000 tons of grass, trees and crops in a single night.
　　All ﹩150 million may be needed this year. The U.S. has provided two spraying planes and about 50,000 gal. of pesticide. The European Community has donated ﹩3.8 million in aid and the Soviet Union, Canada, Japan and China have provided chemical-spraying aircraft to help wipe out the pests. But relief efforts are hampered by the relative mildness of approved pesticides, which quickly lose their deadly punch and require frequent replications. The most effective locust killer dieldrin has been linked to cancer and is banned by many Western countries and some of the affected African nations. More than 5 million acres have been dusted with locust-killing chemicals; another 5 million will be treated by the end of June.
　　On May 30, representatives of Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Mauritania will meet in Algiers to discuss tactics to wipe out the ravenous swarms. The move is an important step, but whatever plan is devised, the locust plague promised to get worse before the insects can be brought under control.
【小題1】The main idea of the first sentence in the passage is that ______.

A．the command post is stationed with people all the time.

B．the command post is crowded with people all the time.

C．there are clocks around the command post.

D．the clock in the command post is taken care of by the staff.

【小題2】The favorable breeding ground for the locust is ______.

A．rich soil.	B．wet land
C．paces covered crops and vegetation	D．the Red Sea

【小題3】People are alert at the threat of the locust because ______.

A．the insects are likely to create another African famine.

B．the insects may blacken the sky.

C．the number of the insects increases drastically.

D．the insects are gathering and moving in great speed.

【小題4】Which of the following is true?

A．Once the pesticides are used, locust will die immediately.

B．Relief efforts are proved most fruitful due to the effectiveness of certain pesticides.

C．Dieldrin, the most effective locust killer, has been widely accepted in many countries.

D．Over 10 million acres of affected area will have been treated with locust-killing chemicals by the end of June.

【小題5】The purpose for affected nations to meet in Algiers on May 30 is ______.

A．to devise anti-locust plans.

B．to wipe out the swarms in two years.

C．to call out for additional financial aid from other nations.

D．to bring the insects under control before the plague gets worse.

A new report says only about half of all students in the main school systems of America’s largest cities finish high school. The report notes higher rates of graduation — over 70% —in areas surrounding the cities. Researchers studied high school graduation rates from the 2003, 2004 school year. They also identified the nation’s fifty largest cities. The largest, New York City, had a population of more than eight million. The smallest city was Wichita, Kansas. It had about three hundred and sixty thousand people.
Researchers used a system of measurement called the cumulative promotion index to find graduation rates. School officials in many of the cities studied said the resulting numbers were too low. That is because different areas use different methods to find graduation rates. Critics say many methods do not give a true picture of the number of students who leave high school before finishing.
Other studies have put the national graduation rate at about 70%. But experts agree that too many students are not completing high school. They estimate the number at more than one million each year. The report was prepared for America’s Promise Alliance. The private group aims to help children receive services they need to succeed.
General Colin Powell was chairman of America’s Promise Alliance when it was formed in 1997. He attended the press conference Tuesday where the report was released. He said studies have shown that the US must do more to educate the leaders and work force of the future.
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings also spoke. She said the government will propose that states use the same methods when reporting graduation rates. Alliance officials also announced the start of a nationwide campaign to improve graduation rates. It is to include a series of meetings to be held in every state over the next two years. The meetings will bring together elected leaders, business owners, students, parents and education officials. They will develop plans to increase the number of Americans who finish high school.
【小題1】The author wants to tell us ___________.

A．too many Americans do not finish high school

B．different methods to find graduation rates

C．services American children need to receive

D．the increase of the number of Americans who finish their high school

【小題2】 From Paragraph 1 we can infer that __________.

A．there are 8,360,000 people in the US’ fifty largest cities

B．Wichita in Kansas is the smallest city in the US

C．50% of the people in the US don’t finish their high school education

D．high school graduation rates in or near the biggest cities are higher

【小題3】The underlined word “picture” probably can be replaced by “_______”.

A．situation

B．scene

C．image

D．mood

【小題4】From the last paragraph, we can draw a conclusion that _______-.

A．secretary of Education Margaret Spellings didn’t believe that number from the report

B．the government will stop using the cumulative promotion index to find graduation rates

C．secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced the start of a nationwide campaign to improve graduation rates

D．the low graduation rates should be paid attention to by the government and the society

Two years ago, the Funk family of suburban Chicago adopted a Chinese baby girl who had been abandoned on a sidewalk near a Yangzhou textile factory.
Last year and halfway across the United States, the Ramirez family of suburban Miami adopted a girl who had been abandoned a week later on the same spot.
Both families named their daughters Mia. It turns out, a first name and Chinese heritage aren’t the only things the three-year-olds have in common. The girls’ mothers—Holly Funk and Diana Ramirez—met on a website for parents who had gone through international adoptions. After a flurry of e-mails comparing photographs and biographical details, DNA testing proved the families’ suspicions: The girls are probably fraternal (手足般的) twins.
“I was in shock,” said Ramirez, who lives with her husband Carlos in Pembroke Pines, Florida. “Well, now this is for real.”
The Internet and Web groups revolving around international orphanages are increasingly being used to link adopted children with biological kin(親屬). The site that the Funks and Ramirezes used has a membership of 137 people, with 15 sets of twins and seven sets of siblings whose relationships have been confirmed.
At a reunion on Friday at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, Mia Diamond Funk Mia Hanying Ramirez shyly surveyed each other, then reached for each other’s hand.
DNA tests established an 85 percent probability that the girls are at least half sisters. Scientists did not have a biological parent to test and reach a greater certainty, but given their ages and physical similarities, experts say it is likely they are fraternal twins.
Douglas and Holly Funk hope to take Mia to Miami in October. Both sets of parents say they are committed to staying in touch and often let the twins talk to each other on the phone.
【小題1】. Both the adopted girls shared a first name ________.

A．because they both came from China

B．because of their physical similarities

C．because their US parents suspected they were twins

D．for no good reason

【小題2】 Why did the girls’ mothers meet on the Internet?

A．To compare photographs of the two girls.

B．To communicate with other people who had adopted children abroad.

C．To test their suspicion.

D．To exchange experiences on adopting children.

【小題3】Experts are still not 100 percent sure that the two girls are fraternal twins because ________.

A．DNA tests are still not accurate enough

B．the two girls were born by different parents

C．the DNA of a biological parent is still missing

D．one girl is born a week later than the other

【小題4】What would be the best title for the passage?

A．Adopted Twins Reunited on Internet

B．Adopted Twins Live happily in the US.

C．Suspicion Turned into Reality

D．The Story of Adopted Twins and Their Parents

IQUIQUE, Chile (Reuters) — Rescue workers at the San Jose gold and copper mine in northern Chile had reason to sing this week. A small hole drilled into the earth became a passage to freedom for 33 trapped miners, who spent 69 days underground. “Never have people been trapped for so long so deeply,” says a doctor at NASA, the American space agency, which helped in the rescue.
But the chief medical officer for the miners said most are in good enough health to leave the hospital within a day or so. The first three recovered and went home Thursday night.
For much of the day the miners relaxed with Chilean President Sebastian Pinera. The 32 Chileans and 1 Bolivian still wore special sunglasses to protect their eyes.
A partial mine collapse on 5th August trapped them more than half a kilometer underground. They had to stretch a two-day food supply. For two weeks no one knew if they were alive or dead. Later, they received supplies.
The first miner rescued on Wednesday was Florencio Avalos. The second was Mario Sepulveda, who talked about how the experience tested his faith. The last miner up was Luis Urzua, who was the shift leader when his crew became trapped.
Rescuers used a metal cage to pull the miners to safety in less than 24 hours — faster than expected. The rescue capsule was a half-meter wide and known as the Phoenix, an imaginary bird from ancient stories. It bursts into flames but is continually reborn and rises from the ashes.
Chile’s Navy built the capsule with advice from mining experts and NASA engineers. It worked like an elevator, traveling up and down on a cable through a shaft（豎井）drilled 622 meters into the rocks.
Millions of people around the world watched the rescue. More than one thousand journalists traveled to the mine in the Atacama Desert to report on the rescue. They joined family members of the miners and rescue crews housed in an area of tents known as Camp Hope.
【小題1】What would be the best title for the passage?

A．Rescued miners speak out	B．A rebirth for 33 rescued miners in Chile
C．Miners’ life deep underground	D．Chilean president honors rescued miners

【小題2】 How many rescued miners are still in hospital?

A．3.

B．33.

C．30.

D．69.

【小題3】

A．It was a wooden cage like a capsule. B．It was named after a real Chilean bird. C．It worked efficiently in the rescue. D．It was built by NASA engineers.

【小題4】 The rescue is great for the reason that ______.

A．it lasted so long and the miners were trapped so deep

B．the American space agency took part

C．Chilean President was on the rescuing spot

D．33 trapped miners were saved