She is the only one of the students who have got the first prize.

         A                B               C           D

Devra Davis was an American epidemiologist (流行病學(xué)家) and writer. In When Smoke Ran Like Water, Devra Davis takes the reader from killer smoke to the serious problems of the present including breast cancer and climate change. Davis has been devoted to decreasing illness and loss of life from environmental pollution for decades. She is determined not to let figures and numbers hide the people whose lives are in danger.

   One of the things that makes When Smoke Ran Like Water, her book on the battle against pollution, so powerful is that she hasn’t just only studied the statistics (數(shù)字統(tǒng)計(jì)), but she’s lived them. As a child in the Monongahela River town, she survived the 1948 smog (煙霧) pollution that was reported to have killed 20 people. She writes, “The 50 people who died in the month following decade are nowhere counted. And there is no counting of the thousands called the non-killed － all those who went on to suffer in various poorly understood ways.”

   For Davis, counting counts. She focuses on epidemiology, the science which is rooted in numbers. Her book is a series of related stories, which uses a convincing (具有說服力的) method to support her conclusions. For anyone interested in the future of human health, When Smoke Ran Like Water also provides a valuable basis for understanding and action.

67. We can learn from the text that Davis cares most about_____.

A. the measures taken by governments to fight environmental pollution

B. the lasting damage to health caused by environmental pollution

C. the number of people died in environmental pollution

D. the environmental pollution caused by the smog in 1948

68.The author thinks that When Smoke Ran Like Water is a powerful book because_______.

A. Davis was an expert in the study of pollution

B. Davis used real numbers to study pollution

C. Davis was good at writing interesting stories

D. Davis put her real-life experience into the book

69. What kind of method is used by Davis to support the conclusion?

A. The reasoning method         B. The storytelling method

C. The statistic method             D. The experiment method

70. The purpose of the text is to________.

   A. show the damage caused by pollution

   B. explain why When Smoke Ran Like Water is popular

   C. introduce When Smoke Ran Like Water to readers

   D. tell the life of the American writer Devra Davis

When I got home after the holiday there were a lot of ______(留言) in my phone.

When someone says, "Well, I guess I’ll have to go to face the music", it does not mean he is planning to go to a concert. It is something far less pleasant, like being called in by your boss to explain why you did this or that, and why you did not do this or that. Sour（剌耳的; 拙劣的）music, indeed, but it has to be faced.

The phrase “to face the music” is familiar to every American, young and old. It is at least 100 years old. Where did the expression come from?

The first information comes from the American writer James Fennimore Cooper. He said in 1851 that the expression was first used by actors while waiting in the wings to go on stage. After they got their cue（提示，暗示） to go on, they often said, "It’s time to go to face the music." And that is exactly what they did--- face the orchestra (管弦樂隊(duì)) which was just below the stage.

An actor might be frightened or nervous as he moved on to the stage in front of the audience that might be friendly or perhaps unfriendly especially if he forgot his lines. But he had to go out. So, “to face the music" came to mean having to go through something, no matter how unpleasant the experience might be, because you knew you had no choice.

The other explanation comes from the army. Men had to face inspection(視 察)by their leader. The soldiers worried about how well they looked. Was their equipment clean--shiny enough to pass inspection? Still, the men had to go out, and face the music of the band, as well as the inspection. What else could they do?

According to the passage, the word “music" means________.

A．your boss’s criticism(批評(píng))              B．your leader’s inspection

C．something unpleasant to be experienced    D．sour pop music

The phrase ‘to face the music" was first used by _______.

A．a(chǎn)ll the Americans       B．the American writer James Fennimore cooper

C．some American actors   D．the American orchestra

An actor might feel frightened or nervous when going on stage. One of the reasons is that ______.

A．his performance was not good at all

B．he might not remember what he should say on stage

C．he had to face the unfriendly audience

D．most of the audience might be his friends

to face the music" is also used to mean that soldiers were not willing _______.

A．to be examined about their equipment    B．to be found weak

C．to show themselves up in public         D．to be inspected by their leader

The passage is mainly about_______.

A．the meaning of the phrase ‘to face the music"  B．how to deal with something unpleasant

C．how to learn English phrase                D．how to go through difficulty

Many immigrants(移民) to the United States find the decision to seek better lives for their families in America can have an unexpected and tragic consequence(后果). Deep differences with their children develop over language and culture.

“Many immigrants arrive here without much education. Their kids soon gain language skills and also street marts(耍時(shí)髦) on how to live in America, leaving the parents at a disadvantage,” Ileana , Roses, pastor of a Methodist church group operating in Virginia, said.

“Not only that but they find they cannot relate to children who quickly absorb American culture,” she said.

According to the US Census Bureau(人口調(diào)查局), the number of foreign born or first generation Americans reached 55 million last year, a record one in five of the total population.

A government survey of 922 immigrants in 2000 found that nearly 40 percent of those who had been in the United States for more than 15 years would still like to take English classes if they had the time.

Two thirds of low income households depended on their children for translation.

Psychologists(心理學(xué)家) and sociologists say parents can lose their position of authority(權(quán)威) in a family as a result and the effects of that can be far-reaching.

Children exposed to American pop culture that glorifies(頌揚(yáng)) youth and sexuality(性感) often rebel when their parents try to impose the conservative values they brought with them.

“Americanization erodes(侵蝕) all important aspects of parenting,” said Richard Weissbourd, who teaches education at Harvard University.

“I feel a part of me is dying with my children. They don’t listen to my music. I have to play it on Sunday morning when they are not around,” said an immigrant.

What troubles the immigrant parents most is ___________.

A. that they can’t understand the English language

B. that they lose their position of authority in their families

C. that their children have lost sense of their own national values

D. how they can master the English language as soon as possible

From the passage we can infer that the population of the states at present is about____.

A. 275 million    B. 220 million   C. 255 million   D. smaller than 250 million

Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A. All the immigrants had expected the troubles they would meet before they went to the US.

B. Two thirds of immigrant families are low income households.

C. American culture shows a spirit against conservative social and cultural values.

D. American pop culture puts the immigrant families at a disadvantage.

Which of the following is probably the title of the report?

A. The Result of the US Census

B. The Differences Between Parents and Children in the US

C. The Troubles of the American Immigrants

D. Role Reversal(顛倒) Troubles Many Parents and Children

It is sometimes said that strange flying objects have been seen high up in the sky. People call these strange objects Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO). These UFOs caused a lot of interest. Some of the reports about them are difficult to believe. Some have been explained in scientific ways. Others have never been explained. Here is an account of UFOs from a report.

Dennis Burdens, who wrote an article, tells us that he once saw a UFO himself. He was having dinner one night with a friend near Tripoli, Libya, and after dinner the two men walked across a yard to his room to look at some papers. Burdens noticed that the moon looked strange that night.

“It wasn’t the moon ”, was the reply.

They watched the light and saw that it was moving. It seemed to be an object rather like a big plate. In some ways it looked like smoke with a light on it, but it wasn’t smoke because it didn’t change its shape. It was moving in a regular way. That is to say, it didn’t go suddenly faster or more slowly, and it didn’t go higher or lower. So the two men decided that there must be men in it.

After that, Burdens said that he felt eyes looking at him. He was being watched in the darkness.

When it was nearer, they noticed that the bottom parts were brighter than the top. The bottom was yellow and the top red. Then the object suddenly turned away and left Libya, moving very fast.

On a later day Burdens talked to other people about it, and he found some who had seen it. They all described it in the same way. Could they all be mistaken?

UFOs are _____.

A. flying high up in the sky    B. strange flying objects

C. difficult to believe         D. very interested

A UFO was seen one night _____.

A. when they were walking across a yard to Burdens’ room

B. while they were looking at the light

C. when Burdens noticed the moon appearing strange

D. while they were having dinner

The UFO moved _______.

A. regularly   B. in a changeable way  C. slowly    D. fast

The UFO looked like _____ .

A. smoke  B. a large plate   C. light   D. a jumping object

The UFO was seen ______ .

A. by Burdens and his friend          B. brighter in the darkness

C. by several people   D. to have a yellow bottom and a red top in the same way

By the time he was twenty, he received a doctor’s degree.

             A            B        C          D

I wonder how they call those flowers.

           A     B      C        D

Mr. Li often tells my father that it is necessary that he drinks a cup of water after he gets

                                  A     B            C                      D

up.

We won’t keep winning games _______ we keep playing well.?

A. because B. unless

C. when D. while