Are you worried by the rising crime rate? If you are, you probably know that your house, possessions(财产) and person are increasingly in danger of suffering from great rise in the cases of burglary(夜盗;抢劫) and attack.

Figures show an ever-increasing crime rate, but it is only too easy to imagine "It will never happen to me". Unfortunately, statistics show that it really can happen to you and, if you live in a large city, you run twice the risk of being a victim.

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You must remember that owning a burglar alarm is no indication(暗示) that your house is packed with valuable possessions. It quite simply indicates to unwelcome visitors that yours is one house they will not break into easily, so they carry on to an unprotected house where their job is made a lot easier.

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1. Anyone who takes an interest in the crime rate will, according to the text, be aware that ___________.

A．more burglars are being caught than ever before

B．people have more possessions to worry about nowadays

C．burglars are more at risk than they used to be

D．homes are more likely to be broken into nowadays

2. It seems that people who live in cities are ____________

A．more often victims than those living in other areas

B．of the opinion that statistics are wrong

C．twice as well as people living in other areas

D．of the opinion that burglars only rob unprotected homes

3.The article claims that possessing an alarm system will _________.

A. show burglars that you have something worth stealing

B. persuade burglars not to break into your house

C. make the burglars’job less complicated

4.The underlined word "Figures" in the second paragraph can be replaced by"       "

A．Illustrations        B．Fingers           C．Numbers          D．Mathematics

 

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Possessing a car gives one a greater degree of freedom. With the building of good fast motorways, long distances can be covered rapidly and pleasantly.    1   You will no longer be forced to rely on public transport and work locally. You can choose from a greater variety of jobs and probably changes your work more frequently as you are not limited to a small area.

Although you can afford to buy it now, you have to consider the future.    2  However large the first sum you have to pay, you have to spend more in running the machine—the various taxes, the fuel, and of course the repairs. The last is especially endless. Any single repair may cost you thousands.

   3   As more and more cars are produced and used, an even larger amount of poisonous gas is being sent out. Some of the contents of this gas, such as lead, can cause actual harm to the health of people. Many of the minor illness of modern industrial society, headaches, tiredness, and stomachaches may just arise from the gas.

    4    It has been said that when a man is sitting behind the wheel, his car becomes the display of his personality. People who are normally quiet and pleasant may become unrecognizable when they are behind the wheel. They are ill-mannered and aggressive and selfish. All their hidden character seems to be brought to the surface by act of driving.

Traveling by car actually brings more inconvenience. Driving a car may be more comfortable than taking a crowded bus. But any advantage of driving a car is often gone in traffic jams, endless queues of cars through all the main streets.    5   

A．Driving a car often brings out a man’s worst qualities.

B．Driving a car may cause many traffic accidents.

C．If you have a car, you can move around freely.

D． Considering this, I don’t support the use of more cars.

E.  A car may bring you heavy financial burden.

F.  More cars can produce serious air pollution.

G. Knowing you are able to drive makes you more confident.

 

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

To emigrate means to move to another country and start a new life.   1.     Also, it is the surest way to change a man’s life completely.

Nowadays, emigration is especially important to scientists and people possessing unique skills and talents.   2.    Also, emigration might be your answer to all the difficult questions life brought to you. And, of course, if you are a scientist with a PH.D. degree and your country does not believe your research to deserve adequate funding, emigration may be your only way to continue professional activities.

 3.   European finest professionals, talented scientists, engineers, inventors, doctors, writers, musicians, actors, artists, athletes began moving to the US soon after the end of the World War II.

  4.   The United States is still attracting people from all walks of life. And most capable and talented among them are most welcome there. Even during the world economic crisis, America remains a country with the most stable economy and best funded research and development institutions. Thousands of immigrants arrive in the US every day in search of success and recognition.   5. 

A.The USA is suffering from brain drain most in the world.

B.Emigration is and always has been an ultimate answer to challenges of life.

C.Emigration is becoming more and more serious in less-developed countries.

D.Today, sixty years later, that emigration of talents called brain drain still exists.

E.Emigration of people who can make a great contribution to scientific and cultural fields is not a new phenomenon.

F.People consider the USA as the perfect place where one can reap the best rewards for creativity and knowledge.

G.If your talent in music or literature, theater or painting seems not in need of in your country, emigration might be your best bet to achiever your creative goals.

 

Removing the sleeve(封套), you will find a book that is entirely white, except for the names of its author and subject in elegant black type on the cover. It is the perfect design for the biography of a man who insisted that even the insides of his products be perfectly constructed, and that his factory wails flash in the whitest white.

The cover was the only part of the book Steve Jobs wanted to control, writes Isaacson in his introduction. Though Mr. Jobs pushed the biographer of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin to write in his own way, generously allowing the writer more than 40 interviews, this book offers quite a different view of Mr. Jobs, who won much praise from his fans after his death on October 5th at the age of 56.

As a biographer of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, Mr. Isaacson knows how to celebrate long-dead genius, but he claimed that "Steve Jobs" would not be entirely praiseful words. The picture he paints, particularly in the first half of this book, is not nice. Mr. Jobs emerges as a controlling and often cold-blooded character. A child of the 1960s counter-culture (反主流文化), he hated, materialism and lived in simply furnished houses ( in part because he was too particular about furniture). But when Apple went public in 1980, he refused to give any share to Daniel Kottke, a Iongtime supporter and soul mate from college. "He has to abandon the people he is close to," observes Andy Hertzfeld, an early Apple engineer.

Mr. Jobs was undoubtedly possessing an extraordinary ability to attract others and inspire a kind of faith that could not be questioned. But also he could be cold and cruel. If he disapproved of an employee's work, he often shamed him. "This is who I am," he once said after being challenged,"and you can't expect me to be someone I'm not. " This disgusting personality wasn't always helpful,but it served a purpose, writes Mr. Isaacson, many would "end their chain of horror stories by saying that he got them to do things they never dreamed possible. "

Mr. Isaacson treats "Steve Jobs" as the biography of record, which means that it is a strange book to read so soon after its subject's death.   

1.The biography for Jobs is believed to have the perfect design because __

A．it follows Jobs' style

B．its cover is entirely white

C．black and white are his favorite .

D．it is designed by a famous biographer

2.The picture of Jobs that Isaacson paints in his book is __

①cruel    ②humorous   ③particular  ④generous

A．①③             B．②③             C．①④             D．③④

3.It can be safely concluded that        

A．Jobs is highly spoken of in the book

B．Isaacson doesn't think Jobs a good man

C．Jobs didn't care about the design of the book

D．all descriptions of Jobs are not nice in the book

4.This passage can be classified as          

A．a personal diary    B．a book review      C．a news report      D．a TV interview

 

I’m sure many of you have seen Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Multiplicity, or many of the other movies that describe cloning. Most of what you see in these movies is false. What you don’t know is that cloning could be dangerous, to the clone and to our society as a whole. I think human cloning is wrong mainly for four reasons.
What about identity? Humans are promised the right to their own personalities. What would happen if we ignore those rights by giving them someone else’s genetic identity? True, Cloning may prevent people from possessing their identities.
Also, these is a large power struggle here. Cloning means a degree of power and controls over another person’s physical identity and that ignores their rights and their only personalities. The person doing the cloning would have more power than any parent would have.
Cloning would also deal with killing embryos (胚胎). You might not have known, but Dolly, the sheep that was cloned in 1996, was one of over 200 sheep embryos and hers was the only embryo that survived. The rest died or were thrown away. Imagine if the failure rate was that high when we started to clone humans. cloning means running the risk of wasting too much effort
Cloning someone, at this present time, would be extremely dangerous to the birth mother and the clone. In studies done on cows, 4 out of 12 birth mothers died. There is a very high failure rate, which is shown in the cloning of Dolly. Even if you had a few good embryos, failures have been noticeable in animal tests.
So, should we work ahead in the world of cloning? I say no. the risks are greater than the benefits. It’s dangerous to the clone and to the birth mother. We would be killing human lives in the process. It would also be a violation(侵害) of the clone’s right to its own genetic identity and personality.
【小题1】The author thinks human cloning is wrong mainly for ______ reasons.

A．4

B．3

C． 2

D．5

【小题2】According to the article, what is the author’s opinion about identity?

A．Cloning itself gives parents great power over identity.

B．People’s identity is completely determined by their genes.

C．Government has the rights to confirm people’s identities.

D．Cloning may prevent people from possessing their identities.

【小题3】According to Paragraph 4 ,which is right ?      ____.

A．human cloning is much more difficult than animal cloning

B．there are 200 sheep successfully cloned.

C．cloning means running the risk of wasting too much effort

D．numbers of baby animals are likely to be created by cloning

【小题4】Why does the author mention some movies in the first paragraph?

A．To introduce the topic of the article.

B．To present his idea about the movies.

C．To state the conclusion first.

D．To make the article unusual.

【小题5】 What is the best title of the passage?

A．What Is Human Cloning

B．Human Cloning Is Wrong

C．How Does Human Cloning Happen

D．Discussion On Human Cloning