Some of Man's closest relatives in the animal kingdom are under serious threat because of human activity, according to a recently published report.

       According to the document, almost one in three of all apes and monkeys - that is non-human primate species (靈長類動物) are now considered to be in danger of dying out and disappearing from our planet, if action is not taken soon.

       The report, which was produced for the World Conservation Union (WCU), states that 114 of the world's 394 primate species could be lost forever, and the main reason they are threatened is the continuing destruction of forests where most of these animals live. In addition, illegal wildlife trade, climate change and commercial hunting for meat are also pressuring existing primate populations.

       What's more, the problem is getting more serious. The number of species on the organization’s Red List - listing those primate species most threatened and in very serious danger of dying out - has increased by 3 to 25 since 2005.

       Russell Mittermeier, the chief researcher of the WCU report, said, "You could fit all the surviving members of these 25 species in a single football stadium. So the problem is obviously urgent."

       The scientists, who drew up the Red List, believe that the situation is now so bad that if action is not taken immediately, it will result in primate species becoming extinct - something which has not happened in over a century.

       The loss of habitat caused by the clearing of forests for wood, farmland and fuel continues to be the main reason for the declining number of primates, according to the report, and the problem was most severe in Asia.

       The loss of forest trees is also responsible for approximately 20 percent of all greenhouse gases - more than all the cars, trucks, trains and aeroplanes in the world combined.

       Mr. Mittermeier added, "By preserving the world's remaining forests, we save primates and protect other animals while preventing more pollution from entering the atmosphere to warm the climate."

46．What is the main subject of the report discussed in the text?

    A．Climate change.          B．Loss of animal habitat.

    C．Endangered animals.       D．Animal protection.

47．According to the text, when did an ape or monkey species last die out?

     A．In 1908．                  B．In 2005.

     C．Over a hundred years ago.     D．Almost a hundred years ago.

48．How many animals were on the Red List in 2005?

     A．19． B．22． C．25． D．28.

49．The spokesman refers to 'a football stadium' in paragraph 5 to stress that ______.

     A．the animals enjoy playing sports

     B．there are not many of these animals left

     C．these animals should be placed there for protection

     D．the report was announced there

50．What is the main cause of the greenhouse gas problem according to the text?

    A．Aeroplanes.             B．Road vehicles.   

       C．Factory pollution.         D．Loss of trees.

第三部分：閱讀（共兩節(jié)，滿分40分）

第一節(jié)：閱讀下面短文，從每題所給的A、B、C、D四個選項中，選出最佳選項，并把答案寫在答題卷上。（共15小題，每小題2分，滿分30分）

Bamboo is one of the nature’s most surprising plants. Many people call this plant a tree, but it is a kind of grass.

Like other kinds of grass, a bamboo plant may be cut very low to the ground, but it will grow back very quickly. A Japanese scientist recorded one bamboo plant that grew almost 1.5 meters in 24 hours! Bamboo grows almost everywhere in the world except Europe. There are more than 1,000 kinds of bamboo that grow around the world on both mountains and plains(平原).

Not all bamboo looks the same. Some bamboo plants are very thin. They may only grow to be a few centimeters wide while others may grow to more than 30 centimeters across. This plant also comes in different colors, from yellow to black to green.

Many Asian countries have been using bamboo for hundreds of years. They often use bamboo for building new buildings. As a matter of fact, the cables (繩索) that hold up the hanging bridge across the Min River in Sichuan are made of bamboo. The bridge has been in use for more than 1,000 years, and is still holding strong.

In Africa, engineers are teaching poor farmers how to find water using bamboo. These African countries need cheap ways to find water because they have no money, and their fields often die from no rain and no water. It seems that bamboo is one of the best things they can use. Bamboo pipes and drills (鉆) can help to make the poor thirsty fields to be watered.

41.How is bamboo like grass?

A. It is thin and easy to cut.                        B. It grows everywhere.

C. It grows quickly after its cut short.          D. It is short and green.

42.The sentence “while others may grow to more than 30 centimeters across.” means “Some other bamboo plants may grow to be very _______.”

A. short                B. strong                     C. thick                        D. tall

43.From the text we know ______.

A. most people call bamboo plant trees

B. a bamboo plant may grow 4.5 meters in three days

C. the bamboo plant changes its colors when it grows

D. a bridge held by bamboo cable was built thousands of years ago

44.Why did the engineers teach the poor farmers in Africa to make use of bamboo?

A. Because it is cheap.                              B. Because it is colorful.

C. Because it drills fast.                             D. Because it is used by Asians.

45.Which of the following is NOT true?

A. There are many different kinds of bamboo with different colors.

B. Cables made of bamboo can last for over a thousand years.

C. Bamboo can be used for buildings, bridges and watering projects(工程).

D. Bamboo plants are able to grow well in any part of the world.

II 語言知識及應用（共兩節(jié)，滿分35分）

 完形填空（共10小題；每小題2分，滿分20分）

閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意；然后從21-30各題所給的A、B、C和D選項中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。

The Voice of America began during World WarⅡ. When Germany was broadcasting a radio program to get international   21  , American officials believed they should   22   the German broadcast with words that they thought were the facts of world events. The first VOA news report began with words in German. “The news may be good or bad, but we shall tell you the truth.” Within a week, other VOA   23   were broadcasting in Italian, French and English.

After World WarⅡended in 1945, some Americans felt VOA’s   24   had to be changed, considering the Soviet Union became the enemy of America．They wanted to   25    Soviet listeners. Then VOA began broadcasting in Russian.

In the early years VOA began adding something new to its broadcast that was   26___  “ Music USA”. Another new idea came along in 1959．VOA knew that many listeners did not know enough English to completely understand its   27   English broadcast. So VOA   28___   a simpler kind of English, which uses about 1,500 words and is spoken slowly of course, it is special English.

In the opinion of most VOA listeners, the most important program is the news report. News from around the world   29   into the VOA news rooms in Washington 24 hours a day. It comes from VOA reporters in major cities and also from other broadcasts like BBC．VOA writers and editors use these materials to   30   news reports, which are being broadcast in 43 languages.

21. A．business        B．culture          C．support             D．information

22.   A．reply        B．answer         C．join                D．interrupt

23. A．stations         B．news                C．announcers          D．officials

24. A．home           B．position             C．purpose            D．results

25. A．reach           B．satisfy       C．attack              D．support

26. A．known          B．reported       C．called             D．printed

27. A．normal         B．fast           C．good               D．exact

28. A．invented        B．discovered      C．taught               D．stopped

29. A．flies             B．sends           C．delivers            D．pasts

30. A．broadcast        B．announce            C．translate            D．prepare

第二節(jié)：信息匹配 （共5小題，滿分10分）

Here are five letters from readers listed in 1-5. All the greetings and signatures are left out. Suppose you are a secretary of the magazine CR (Crazy English Reader), for each one find a suitable reply from A-F. Mark the correct letter (A-F) on your answer sheet. There is one extra reply which you don’t need to use.

51. I am a reader of CR. Recently I found students translate some articles of CR. I appreciate your offering an opportunity to us beginners to practice using English. So I want to ask how they can obtain these articles and translated them for you, and what qualities you require. Thank you.

52. I love your Crazy English Reader magazine! It provides valuable data for work in our English teaching. My wife and I are teaching Conversational English so I’ve been giving you a bit of a plug at our middle school. I told the students to “get a copy!” It’s good stuff! Fantastic!

53. I’m one of Yao’s fans from Guangzhou. I have read the Yao Ming articles in No.7 Crazy English Reader. I want to know his correspondence address and the official website. Could you please tell me? Thank you very much indeed.

54. First of all, I must say thank you very much to all the CE Reader editors who gave us a really good English magazine. Secondly, I want to give you a piece of advice. In each passage, you gave us some new words with their Chinese translation. However, as far as my knowledge, I think you should give us not only the Chinese meaning but also the English meaning so as to know the words more accurately. Thank you!

55. I am an editor of the English Monthly of our school. I have a question that is how to say the position of the paper e.g. and so on. I hope you can help me to tell me the word in English. The more the better. Thank you so much! I love the book very much. Now, I do this work, I need study more information about this work, if you have time, please email me. Thank you.

A． Thank you for your suggestion. We may try that in some future issues of CR. I think the best way to improve your reading vocabulary is to be able to guess the meaning of the word from the other words around it. Also, if you have an English dictionary, it’s good to look up the words and then mark them down in a notebook and review them later on. Then if you really want to learn how to use the words, try using them in conversation or in writing. Hope this helps.

B． The best way for you to learn the different positions in a newspaper or magazine is to get a copy of an all-English magazine or newspaper and then copy down the different positions. There are also titles such as Managing Editor, reporter, Copy Editor, Photo Editor and Layout Editor. I hope this helps. If you have some more specific questions, you can send them to me and I’ll try to answer.

C．The best way to reach Yao directly is through his home team, the Shanghai Sharks. You can write him at 2570 Xietu Road, Shanghai. For more information on Yao, you can look at the sports section in sina. com. I hope this helps. Another idea is that you can try to write Yao while he’s living and playing in Houston. You can try to reach Yao in the US at:   Yao Ming   Compaq Centre 10  Houston, TX 77046

D． Thank you for being such a careful reader of CR. Yes, you’re right we made a mistake in the writing of that Chinese word. Each issue we try to read very carefully each article and its translation to make sure there are no mistakes, but unfortunately a few mistakes always get by. But you encourage us to keep improving, so thank you.

E． Yes, we do have several students who help us translate some of the articles in our magazine. We contact these translators directly after interviewing their translation work. Afterwards we assign the articles to them for translation. If you are interested in being one of our translators you can send us some information about yourself and a sample of your translation work.

F．  Thank you for helping us to promote CR. We’re glad it’s helpful to your students. We always try to include articles that reflect real life. It’s our hope that CR will not only improve student’s English but also open up a different worldview.

---Mr. Li’s lecture was ____.

   --- But it was a pity that I missed it.

worth listening                  B. worthy of listening 

C. worth listening to                 D. worthy to listen to

Traffic jam and cities, it seems, go hand in hand. Everyone complains about being stuck in traffic; but, like the weather, no one seems to do anything about it. In particular, traffic engineers, transportation planners, and public officials responsible for transportation systems in large cities are frequently criticized for failing to solve traffic jam.

But is traffic jam a sign of failure? Long queues at restaurants or theater box offices are seen as signs of success. Should transportation systems be viewed any differently? I think we should recognize that traffic jam is an unpreventable by-product of successful cities, and view the “traffic problem” in a different light.

Cities exist because they promote social interactions and economic transactions.

Traffic jam occurs where there are lots of people but limited spaces. Culturally and economically successful cities have the worst traffic problems, while decaying cities don’t have much traffic. New York and Los Angeles are America’s most crowded cities. But if you want access to major brokerage houses (經(jīng)紀行), you will find them easier to reach in crowded New York than in any other large cities. And if your firm needs access to post-production film editors or satellite-guidance engineers, you will reach them more quickly through the crowded freeways of LA than through less crowded roads elsewhere.

Despite traffic jam, a larger number and wider variety of social interactions and economic transactions can be made perfect in large, crowded cities than elsewhere. Seen in this light, traffic jam is an unfortunate consequence of prosperity, not a cause of economic decline and urban decay.

So while we can consider traffic jam as increasing costs on the areas of big cities, the costs of inaccessibility (交通不便) in uncrowded places are almost certainly greater.

There is no doubt that traffic jam brings the terrible economic and environmental damage in places like Bangkok, Jakarta, and Lagos. But mobility is far higher and traffic jam levels are far lower here in the US, even in our most crowded cities. That’s why, for now, we don’t see people and capital streaming out of San Francisco and Chicago, heading for cities like California, and Illinois.

46. We can conclude from the first paragraph that_______.

   A. traffic jam and weather are the two factors preventing the development of the big city

   B. traffic jam seems to be very difficult to deal with

   C. if traffic engineers try their best, traffic jam can be solved

   D. public officials are always criticized for misusing their power

47. According to the passage, what’s the author’s opinion towards traffic jam？_____

   A. In cities, traffic jam is unavoidable.

   B. Traffic jam is both a sign of failure and a sign of success.

   C. Traffic jam is the consequence of successful cities.

   D. For a successful city, traffic jam is not unpreventable.

48. By saying “decaying” (in Para. 4), the writer probably means_______.

   A. declining             B. developing 

C. rich and successful     D. strong and healthy

49. According to this article, which statement about “New York” and “Los Angeles” is true? _____

   A. The traffic jam in the two cities has been worsened.

   B. New York and Los Angeles are the most successful cities in the USA.

   C. It is easier to reach major brokerage houses in the two cities than in other cities.

   D. Despite the traffic jam in LA, you’ll find a satellite-guidance engineer more quickly there.

50. What can we learn from the last paragraph? _______

   A. Traffic jam has caused terrible bad effects in cities such as Bangkok and Lagos.

   B. The traffic jam in San Francisco has resulted in the capital becoming empty.

   C. The traffic jam level in Jakarta is lower than that in the US.

   D. California is as crowded and successful as San Francisco.

      , and the problem will be worked out..

       A．If you have a bit more effort  B．Having a little effort

       C．A bit more effort            D．There being a little effort

—Iwonder why he has been acting so strange these days．

       —Recent pressure at work may        his behavior．

       A．account for     B．make for C．change for       D．stand for

    Andrew Carnegie was a 19th century steel tycoon（大亨）who became one of the 20th century’s most famous philanthropists（慈善家）His life story is one of the most famous rags-to-riches accounts in United States history.

Carnegie was born in Dunfermlined, Scotland, on November 25,1835. The son of a weaver, he came with his family to the United States in 1848 and settled in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. At age thirteen, Carnegie went to work as a bobbin（線軸）boy in a cotton mill. He then moved rapidly through a series of jobs with Western Union and the Pnnsylvania Railroad. In 1865, he resigned to establish his own business and eventually organized the Carnegie Steel Company, which started the steel industry in Pittsburgh. At age sixty-five, he sold the company to J. P. Morgan for $480 million and devoted the rest of his life to his philanthropic activities and writing, including his autobiography（自傳）.

Many persons of wealth have contributed to charity, but Carnegie was perhaps the first to state publicly that the rich have a moral responsibility to donate their fortune. In 1889 he wrote The Gospe（福音）of Wealth, in which he stated that all personal wealth beyond what was required to supply the needs of one’s family should be regarded as a trust fund to be managed for the benefit of the company.

Carnegie set about giving away his fortune through countless personal gifts and through the establishment of various trusts. In his thirties, Carnegie had already begun to give away some of his fast-accumulating funds. His first large gifts were made to his native town. Later he created seven philanthropic and educational organizations in the United States, including Carnegie Corporation of New York, and several more in Europe.

One of Carnegie’s lifelong interests was the establishment of free public libraries to make available to everyone a means of self-education. There were only a few public libraries in the world when, in 1881, Carnegie began to promote his idea. He and the Corporation subsequently（隨后）spent over $56 million to build 2,509 libraries throughout the English-speaking world.

After this program was ended in 1917, the Corporation continued for about forty years an interest in the improvement of library services. Other major program in the Corporation’s early history included adult education and education in the fine arts.

During his lifetime, Carnegie gave away over $350 million. He died in Lenox, Massachusetts on August 11,1919.

53．Carnegie became wealthy by__________.

       A．his investment in weaving industry B．his father’s financial support

       C．starting his steel business from nothing  D．his philanthropic activities

54．What is the correct order of events related to Carnegie?

    a．He sold his company.

       b．He organized the Carnegie Steel Company.

       c．He worked in a cotton mill.

       d．He came to the United States.

       e．He wrote The Gospel of Wealth.

       A．c-d-e-b-a  B．c-b-a-d-e  C．d-c-b-e-a  D．d-b-a-e-c

55．What can we learn about Carnegie according to the passage?

       A．He was the first wealthy person who contributed to charity.

       B．He believed that it was the duty of the wealthy to help society.

       C．He called on the wealthy to give away all of their fortune to help the poor.

       D．He was willing to give personal gifts only to his friends and relatives.

56．Carnegie established public libraries in order to __________.

      A．win a good reputation for his company

       B．collect money for his educational organizations

       C．improve library services

       D．help people educate themselves

Economy should be developed to raise people’s living standard.__________, effective measures should be taken to deal with different types of pollution caused by the economic development.

       A．Moreover B．Therefore  C．Meanwhile       D．Otherwise