______ exceptionally heavily might railway services be temporarily dislocated (擾亂).

A. If only it snowed    B. Only in case it snows       C. Only were it to snow  D. Only when snow

Thank you for giving us a wonderful Chinese dinner, Ms. Wang.

__________________.         

A. Oh. I’m afraid I didn’t cook very well.

B. I’m glad you enjoy it.

C. Come again when you are free.

D. It’s not polite of you to say so.

 Sales of CDs have greatly increased since the early 1990s, when people_____ to enjoy the advantages of this new technology.

A. begin            B. began           C. have begun         D. had begun

Whatever our differences as human beings are, we all think we’re more like the rest of the animal world than we realize. It is said that we share 40 per cent of our genetic（遺傳的）structure with the simple worm.

But that fact has helped Sir John Sulston win the 2002 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Sir John is the founder of the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, which was set up in 1992 to get further understanding of the human genome（染色體組.

To help them do this, they turned to the worm. The nematode（線蟲類的）worm is one of the earliest creatures on planet earth. It is less than one millimeter long, completely transparent and spends its entire life digging holes through sand. But it still has lots to say about human life, and what can be done to make it better.

What the worm told Sir John and his colleagues was that each of cells in the human body is programmed like a computer. They grow, develop and die according to a set of instructions that are coded in our genetic make-up.

Many of the diseases that humans suffer from happen when these instructions go wrong or are not obeyed. When the cell refuses to die but carries on growing instead, this leads to cancer. Heart attacks and diseases like AIDS cause more cell deaths than normal, increasing the damage they do to the body. Sir John was the first scientist to prove the existence of programmed cell death.

1．Sir John Sulston got a Nobel Prize for Medicine because he has______.

       A．found that human beings are similar to the worn

       B．got the fact we share 40 per cent of our genetic structure with the simple worm

       C．found the computer which controls each of the cells in the human body

       D．proved that cell death is programmed

2．People might be seriously ill if the cells in heir body______-.

       A．grow without being instructed B．die regularly

       C．fail to follow people’s instructions  D．develop in the human body

3．The underlined word “they” (paragraph 5) refers to_________-.

       A．cell deaths              B．diseases          C．instructions          D．cells

4．What is the subject discussed in the text?

       A．The theory of programmed cell deaths.

       B．A great scientist—Sir John Sulston.

       C．The programmed human life.

       D．Dangerous diseases.

Although women lead healthier, longer lives, the cruel perception that they reach their sell-by date and become “old” sooner than men is widespread in the workplace, research shows.

A survey of more than 2,600 managers and personnel professionals showed that age discrimination is not only common in the workplace, but is full of inconsistencies(矛盾). Six in ten managers thought that they had suffered from age discrimination——usually because they were turned down for a job for being too old or too young. Yet more than a fifth admitted that they used age as a condition when they employ new workers.

Although the survey found widespread agreement that older workers were better than younger colleagues when it came to reliability, commitment, loyalty and customer service, these qualities were not necessarily considered to be worthy of advancement. More than half of respondents believed that workers between 30 and 39 were the most likely to be advanced in their company, with only 2 per cent citing (引證)50-year-olds or above.

Dianah Worman of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development said that there was anecdotal evidence that people were considered old at different ages in different sectors. “We heard of one man working in IT who said he was considered too old by the age of 28,”she said.“There was no evidence to suggest that older workers were less valuable to companies than younger workers, in fact the opposite was often true because older workers often brought experience.” she added.

The findings also suggested that the Government’s ideas on age in the workforce may also be out of step with reality.

1. The text is mainly about ______.

A. the government’s idea on age in workforce 

B. age discrimination in the workforce

C. the people who find work            

D. the discussion about who is worth promoting

2. Which of the following statements is true according to the text?

A. Women get older than men though they are healthier.          

B. Sixty percent of the managers were refused because they were too older.

C. Young workers are more valuable to companies than the older ones.

D. The people in their thirties are easier to be promoted than those in their fifties.

3. The underlined word “sell-by date” in paragraph 1 probably refers to______.

A. the age when they retire   

B. the age when they should be promoted

C. the date on which they’re sold 

D. the date when they sell goods

第二節(jié)　書面表達（滿分25分）

假定你是李華，準備參加學校舉辦主題為“How to protect ourselves in the school?”的英語征文比賽。請按要求寫一篇短文，主要內(nèi)容包括：在學校發(fā)生地震或火災時，我們應該如何保護自己？

只選其中一種突發(fā)災害闡述自己的觀點；

要求至少寫出三點措施；

可以適當增加細節(jié)，以使行文連貫。

注意：詞數(shù)120左右；開頭已經(jīng)為你寫好，不計入總詞數(shù)。

Life is not easy. As a student, we should learn how to protect ourselves in the school.

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 A brilliant idea occurred to him, ________ to his research in the lab.

A．while devoting                B．while devoting himself

C.while he was devoted          D．while devoted

This kind of clothing material, ________soft and smooth, sells well.

A. feeling       B. felt       C.being felt       D. having felt

       ---Will you tell the secret to Tom?  

       ---No way!  ________ I’m asked to.

A. Unless                            B. When          C. Until                        D. Even though

The child dreamed that he had once lived in a _______ house in the forest.

   A. wooden pretty little                          B. little pretty wooden

   C. pretty little wooden                          D. wooden little pretty