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New Horizon English (Band II) 2010-2011 1st Term

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Part I Listening Comprehension (20%)

Section A:

Now you will hear ten short conversations. A question will follow each conversation. Listen carefully and choose the best answer from the four possible choices.

1 A. By not having problems.    

 B. By not staying so long.

 C. By really liking the class.     

 D. By paying attention.

2 A. Make himself great.      

 B. Make a good impression.

 C. Get some rest.                  

D. Get a new attitude.

3. A. Because she is becoming mature.  

B. Because she is wearing nice clothes.

  C. Because she is growing up.      

 D. Because she is acting like a child.

4. A. Smile during her meeting.      

  B. Calm down and look relaxed.

  C. Meet her new boss.           

  D. Go to a meeting.

5. A. Notice from her boss.         

  B. A better job at the company.

  C. Confidence in herself.          

  D. The skills to get a better job.

6. A. Being surer of himself.          

 B. Wearing better clothing.

  C. Buying expensive clothes.       

  D. Being right more often.

7. A. By improving the tone of his voice. 

 B. By making others believe in him.

  C. By increasing his status.          

D. By believing in other people.

8. A. she should do very well.        

 B. she should go to the interview.

  C. she should get the job.          

  D. she should be positive.

9. A. Because she met him for the first time.

 B. Because she was so bad.

  C. Because she took a liking him.    

  D. Because she had little time.

10.A. By changing his feelings.       

  B. By knowing more things.

  C. By not looking so nervous.        

D. By not changing his ways.

SectionB:

In this section, you will hear a passage about 150 words three times. Please fill in the following  blanks with the exact words you hear from the tape.

Traditionally the heart is the part of the body where emotions come from. If you are a warm-hearted person, for example, you are 1)_______ and thoughtful towards others. If you have a heart of 2)______ ,you are a very generous person. But if you are 3)__________, you are cruel and unfeeling.

Of all the emotions, it is 4)________ that is most associated with the heart. In love 5)________, all over the world, love almost always goes together with the heart. As the song from Titanic 6)________: “ You are here in my heart and my heart will go on and on. Love can 7)________ us one time and last for a lifetime, and never let go till we’re 8)________.”

Perhaps the role of the heart in love comes from what happens to it when you feel really attracted to someone. The strong 9)________ of attraction make your breathing 10)________ up and your heart beat faster.

Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (10%)

Directions: Read the text quickly and answer the following questions. For questions 1-7, mark

Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the text;

N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the text;

NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the text.

For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the text.

Scientists Weigh Options for Rebuilding New Orleans

As experts ponder how best to rebuild the devastated (毁坏)city, one question is whether to wall off—or work with—the water.

Even before the death toll from Hurricane Katrina is tallied, scientists are cautiously beginning to discuss the future of New Orleans. Few seem to doubt that this vital heart of U.S. commerce and culture will be restored, but exactly how to rebuild the city and its defenses to avoid a repeat catastrophe is an open question. Plans for improving its levees and restoring the barrier of wetlands around New Orleans have been on the table since 1998, but federal dallors needed to implement them never arrived. After the tragedy, that's bound to change, says John Day, an ecologist at Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge. And if there is an upside to the disaster, he says, it's that 'now we've got a clean slate to start from."

Many are looking for guidance to the Netherlands, a country that, just like bowl-shaped New Orleans, sits mostly below sea level, keeping the water at bay with a construction of amazing scale and complexity. Others, pointing to Venice's long-standing adaptations, say it's best to let water flow through the city, depositing sediment to offset geologic subsidence—a model that would require a radical rethinking of architecture. Another idea is to let nature help by restoring the wetland buffers between sea and city.

But before the options can be weighed, several unknowns will have to be addressed. One is precisely how the current defenses failed. To answer that, LSU coastal scientists Paul Kemp and Hassan Mashriqui are picking their way through the destroyed city and surrounding region, reconstructing the size of water surges by measuring telltale marks left on the sides of buildings and highway structures. They are feeding these data into a simulation of the wind and water around New Orleans during its ordeal.

"We can't say for sure until this job is done," says Day, "but the emerging picture is exactly what we've predicted for years." Namely, several canals—including the MRGO, which was built to speed shipping in the 1960s—have the combined effect of funneling surges from the Gulf of Mexico right to the city's eastern levees and the lake system to the north. Those surges are to blame for the flooding. "One of the first things we'll see done is the complete backfilling of the MRGO canal," predicts Day, "which could take a couple of years."

The levees, which have been provisionally repaired, will be shored up further in the months to come, although their long-term fate is unclear. Better levees would probably have prevented most of the flooding in the city center. To provide further protection, a mobile dam system, much like a storm surge barrier in the Netherlands, could be used to close off the mouth of Lake Pontchartrain. But most experts agree that these are short-term fixes.

The basic problem for New Orleans and the Louisiana coastline is that the entire Mississippi River delta is subsiding and eroding, plunging the city deeper below sea level and removing a thick cushion of wetlands that once buffered the coastline from wind and waves. Part of the subsidence is geologic and unavoidable, but the rest stems from the levees that have hemmed in the Mississippi all the way to its mouth for nearly a century to prevent floods and facilitate shipping. As a result, river sediment is no longer spread across the delta but dumped into the Gulf of Mexico. Without a constant stream of fresh sediment, the barrier islands and marshes are disappearing rapidly, with a quarter, roughly the size of Rhode Island, already gone.

After years of political wrangling, a broad group pulled together by the Louisiana government in 1998 proposed a massive $14 billion plan to save the Louisiana coasts, called Coast 2050 (now modified into a plan called the Louisiana Coastal Area project). Wetland restoration was a key component. "It's one of the best and cheapest hurricane defenses," says Day, who chaired its scientific advisory committee.

Although the plan was never given more than token funding, a team led by Day has been conducting a pilot study since 2000, diverting part of the Mississippi into the wetlands downstream of the city. "The results are as good as we could have hoped," he says, with land levels rising at about 1 centimeter per year—enough to offset rising sea levels, says Day.

Even if the wetlands were restored and new levees were built, the combination of geologic subsidence and rising sea levels will likely sink New Orleans another meter by 2100. The problem might be solved by another ambitious plan, says Roel Boumans, a coastal scientist at the University of Vermont in Burlington who did his ph.D. at LSU: shoring up the lowest land with a slurry of sediment piped in from the river. The majority of the buildings in the flooded areas will have to be razed anyway, he says, "so why not take this opportunity to fix the root of the problem?" The river could deposit enough sediment to raise the bottom of the New Orleans bowl to sea level "in 50 to 60 years," he estimates. In the meantime, people could live in these areas Venice-style, with buildings built on stilts. Boumans even takes it a step further: "You would have to raise everything about 30 centimeters once every 30 years, so why not make the job easier by making houses that can float."

Whether that is technically or politically feasible—Day, for one, calls it "not likely" —remains to be seen, especially because until now, the poorest residents lived in the lowest parts of the city. Any decision on how best to protect the city in the future will be tied to how many people will live there, and where. "there may be a large contingent of residents and businesses who choose not to return," says Bill Good, an environmental scientist at LSU and manager of the Louisiana Geological Survey's Coastal Processes section. It is also not yet clear how decisions about the reconstruction will be made, says Good, "Since there is no precedent of comparable magnitude." Every level of government is sure to be involved, and "the process is likely to be ad hoc."

Even with the inevitable mingling of science and politics, we still have "a unique chance to back out of some bad decisions," says Good, who grew up in New Orleans. "I hope that we don't let this once-in-history opportunity slip through our fingers in the rush to rebuild the city:"

For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the text.

1. The passage gives a general description of the suggestions to reconstruct New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

2. Two examples to deal with water are Netherlands and Venice.

3. The canals have nothing to do with the flooding.

4. The levees will be shored up further with clear long-term fate.

5. The basic problem for New Orleans is the subsidence of Mississippi River delta.

6. The key component of Coast 2050 is wetland restoration.

7. The plan of Coast 2050 will get billions of federal funding.

8. New Orleans will likely sink ________________ by 2100.

9. Another ambitious plan is to shoring up the lowest land with a slurry of sediment ________________.

10. How decisions about the reconstruction will be made is also ________________.

Part III Reading comprehension (Reading in Depth) (30%)

Section A (10%)

Directions: Fill in the blanks in the following passage by selecting suitable words from the Word Bank. You may not use any of the words more than once. You need to put the answers A, B, C …or O on the answer sheet instead of the words. The words will not be scored. (答题纸上只填写单词前的字母)

[A] represented     [B] engage     [C] refreshing      [D] surround   [E] curved [F] dominant       [G]lower      [H] balanced       [I] activity     [J] zones               [K] foolish         [L] line       [M] acquires      [N] associated   [O] rash

Blue is the world's favorite color. It is also the color most often __1___ with intellect and authority.

Most uniforms are blue. In Greek and Roman mythology, blue is the color of sky gods. In the Old Testament, God is __2___ by deep blue. Blue and turquoise (青绿色)are represented by the Islamic religion. It is the ___3__ color in the mosques of the world.

Blue symbolizes truth, peace and cooperation. It is the color of the flag of the United Nations and of Europe. As the coolest color of the spectrum, it is the hue most likely to have a receding effect. As in the skies and water that ___4__ us, blue is seen as a peaceful and ___5__ color. Blue light has seen to __6___ blood pressure by calming the nervous system hence relaxing the body and mind. Blue creates large airy spaces. It makes rooms bigger.

The wrong shade of blue can be uncomfortable. It can also be cold and sterile(枯燥的)unless ___7__ with warmer colors.

Light and soft blue makes us feel quiet and protected from the bustle(喧闹)and __8___ of the day. Blue bedrooms are restful. Blue bath rooms are appropriately watery. Blue ___9__ depth with greens and reds. Dark blue represents the night making us calm. Its apparently calming effect makes it the perfect tone for the quieter ___10__ of your living space.

Section B (20%)

Directions: There are two reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer to each question.

Passage one

   Most shoplifters (商店扒手)agree that the January sales offer wonderful opportunities for the hard-working thief. With the shops so crowded and the staff so busy, it does not require any extraordinary talent to help you to take one or two little things and escape unnoticed. It is known, in the business, as "hoisting".

But the hoisting game is not what it used to be. Even at the height of the sales, shoplifters today never know if they are being watched by one of those evil little balls that hang from the ceilings of so many department stores above the most desirable goods.

As if that was not trouble enough for them, they can now be filmed at work and obliged to attend a showing of their performance in court.

Selfridges was the first big London store to install closed-circuit videotape equipment to watch its sales floors. In October last year the store won its first court case for shoplifting using a evidence a videotape clearly showing a couple stealing dresses. It was an important test case which encouraged other stores to install similar equipment.

When the balls, called sputniks, first make an appearance in shops, it was widely believed that their only function was to frighten shoplifters. Their somewhat ridiculous appearances, the curious holes and red lights going on and off, certainly make the theory believable.

It did not take long, however, for serious shoplifters to start showing suitable respect. Soon after the equipment was in operation at Selfridges, store detective Brian Chadwick was sitting in the control room watching a woman secretly putting bottles of perfume into her bag.

"As she turned to go," Chadwick recalled, "she suddenly looked up at the 'sputnik' and stopped. She could not possibly have seen that the camera was trained on her because it is completely hidden, but she must have had a feeling that I was looking at her."

"For a moment she paused, but then she returned to counter and started putting everything back. When she had finished, she opened her bag towards the camera to show it was empty and hurried out of the store."

1. January is a good month for shoplifters because ________.

[A] they don't need to wait for staff to serve them

[B] they don't need any previous experience as thieves

[C] there are so many people in the store

[D] January sales offer wonderful opportunities for them

2. The sputniks hanging from the ceiling are intended ________.

[A] to watch the most desirable goods           [C] to frighten shoplifters by their appearance

[B] to make films that can be used as evidence    [D] to be used as evidence against shoplifters

3. The case last October was important because ________ .

[A] the store got the dresses back

[B] the equipment was able to frighten shoplifters

[C] other shops found out about the equipment

[D] the kind of evidence supplied was accepted by court

4. The woman stealing perfume ________.

[A] guessed what the sputniks were for    [C] could see the camera filming her

[B] was frightened by its shape         [D] knew that the detective had seen her

5. The woman's action before leaving the store shows that she ________.

[A] was sorry for what she had done

[B] was afraid she would be arrested

[C]decided she didn't want what she had picked up

[D] wanted to prove she had not intended to steal anything

Passage two

The largest shark known to us, Megalodon, is extinct. Or is it? Carcharodon Megalodon, commonly known as Megalodon, is believed to have lived between 1 million and 5 million years ago and thought to have been 52 feet long. It is (or was) a shark that had a jaw 7 or more feet wide. Fairly recently, there has been some speculation about whether it is extinct or just out of reach. But few people believe that Megalodon has found a home deep in the ocean.

There are many known "Living Fossils": Coelacanth, Sea Cucumbers, Sea Urchins, Lobsters, Sea Stars. The common ones like lobsters and sea urchins are not really looked on as anything amazing. They've been around for thousands of years or more, and are easily accessible to us. What if they weren't accessible and yet still existed? We would label them extinct. The discovery of a live Coelacanth, a fish long believed extinct, challenged some scientists' long-held beliefs on extinction. There have been recent discoveries of incredibly large squid, and deep-sea fish never before seen by scientists.

In the 1960s the U.S. Navy set up underwater microphones around the world to track Soviet submarines. The network, known as the Sound Surveillance System, still lies deep below the ocean's surface in a layer of water known as the "deep sound channel". The temperature and pressure of the channel allow sound waves to travel undisturbed. NOAA's Acoustic Monitoring Project has been using the Sound Surveillance System to listen for changes in ocean structure like ocean currents or