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（1）短文须包括图的内容，并结合相关学科的知识，使短文正确、连贯。

（2）词数100左右。

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The Pentagon

五角大楼

    美国号称世界头号军事大国，其武力干涉几乎渗透到全球，有人开玩笑说：“只要五角大楼打个喷嚏，整个地球都会震动。”五角大楼是什么? 让我们揭开它神秘的面纱，好好地认识一下这座建筑的运作职能吧。

    The Pentagon，or the headquarters of the US Department of Defense，is one of the largest office buildings in the world，taking up a total land of 583 acres．The five-sided structure itself occupies an area of 29 acres．Each of its five outside wails is 921 feet long．It has three times the floor space as the Empire State Building or half again as much space as either of the New York's World Trade Center towers．

    Working inside this huge building are over 25 000 employees，one half of them being civilians and the other half members of the U．S． armed forces．During the last year of the Second World War there were 37 000 people，both military and civilian，working inside the Pentagon．In the Korean and Vietnam War periods，31 000．The employees are scattered among hundreds of offices that occupy a floor space of 3705793 square feet．

While inside the building they tell time by 4 200 clocks，drink from 685 water fountains，utilize 280 rest rooms，consume 30 000 cups of coffee，6 000 tins of milk and 5 000 bottles of soft drinks of various kinds every day，with a total staff of 600 persons preparing and serving food and drinks to the Pentagon employees，daily．

    Notes

    Pentagon n．五边形；五角大楼　　  civilian n．平民

    military n．军人　　　　　　　　  scatter v．分散

    utilize v．利用；应用　　　　　　 consume v．消耗

    Comprehension question

The building is called “the Pentagon ”because________．

A．it is the largest building in the world

B．it lies in the U．S．A．

C．it has five sides

  D．it is a secret place

II. 完形填空（共10题；每小题2分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21—30各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项。
Married couples   21   more than their homes, cars and finances. They are also likely to have some of the same   22  , experts say. If one of them   23  from asthma (哮喘) , depression, high blood pressure or raised cholesterol n. (胆固醇) levels , his or her partner   24   be afflicted ( vt. 使苦恼,折磨) with the   25   illness , Julia Cox of the University in northern England said. Cox and her team said the most likely  26   for the shared diseases was environment. Married couples usually eat the same foods, are exposed to the same allergens (n. 过敏原) and often have similar exercise patterns, all of   27   contribute to ailments (n. 小病, 疾病) such as allergies, high blood pressure and raised cholesterol. The scientists     28     the medical history of 8,000 married couples, aged 30 to 74.     29    is known, the proper use should be     30   some efficient measures to stop this.
21. A. share            B. spare          C. own        D. use
22. A. cancer           B. diseases       C. ill              D. throat
23. A. keeps           B. goes           C. suffers           D. comes
24. A. should          B. shall            C. could      D. will
25. A. different        B. difficult        C. similar     D. same
26. A. season          B. promise         C. reason      D. approach
27. A. who             B. which           C. whose      D. that
28. A. studied          B. read           C. copied     D. understood
29. A. As              B. For            C. It          D. What
30. A. made to               B. made of       C. making of  D. to make of