72. 听到这令人兴奋的消息，他睡不着觉。

　　 ___________________________________________________________________________

71．他加入这个俱乐部已两年了。

　　 ___________________________________________________________________________

70. 我们永远不会放弃希望。

　　 ___________________________________________________________________________

69. 天气正变得越来越热了。

　　 ___________________________________________________________________________

57. They use navigation tools because they don’t want to ____________________

　　 __________________________________________________________________________.

56. What does the underlined word “legend” mean in Chinese?

　　 ___________________________________________________________________________

(8)

　　 One of my favorite things to do is hiking in mountains. Because nobody likes the idea of getting lost, I always prepare before every trip. But what’s the best navigation(导航) tool, a Global Positioning System(GPS) or a good old map and compass(罗盘)?

　　 Five of my friends and I hiked through the mountains on a trail(路线) I marked. One team of three carried a GPS, and the other team used a map and compass.

　　 It took the GPS team 3 hours and 11 minutes to get through the whole hike, however, it took the map and compass team only 2 hours and 49 minutes. The biggest problem the GPS team met was that they lost the satellite signal(卫星信号) in some places. With no map or compass, they had to walk around until they were in a place where the signal was good. The map and compass team was able to spot different landmarks, compare them to their maps and then use the compass to point them in the right direction.

　　 When I head out on my future hikes, I’m bringing a map, a compass and a GPS to show me the way.

根据短文内容在每个空白处填入适当的内容使句子意义完整、正确：

55. How is Barbie Doll in America now?

　　 ___________________________________________________________________________

54. What is “Mattel”?

　　 ___________________________________________________________________________

53. What kind of pictures can be regarded as an art?

　　 ___________________________________________________________________________

(7)

　　 In every little girl’s toy box, there might be a Barbie Doll. Barbie is 50 years old this year. It was designed in 1959 by an American businesswoman named Ruth Handler. She and her husband Elliott started the toy company Mattel. She named the new doll after their daughter Barbara. The first Barbie Doll appeared at the toy fair(交易会) New York on March 9th, 1959. This date is used as Barbie’s birthday.

　　 Mattel sold three hundred thousand Barbie Dolls in the first year at a price of three dollars. Today, a fifty-year-old Barbie in good condition might cost more than twenty-seven thousand dollars. Mattel says 90% of the girls in the United States aged from three to ten own at least one Barbie Doll. And girls aged three to six own an average(平均) of about twelve.

　　 When Mattel created Barbie Dolls half a century ago, they never thought this doll would become a legend, so popular among people. Now Barbie Dolls are famous all over the world. They are sold in one hundred and fifty countries, and every second three Barbie Dolls are sold around the world.