The following is an imaginary diary entry written by US president. This diary is part of Global Trends 2025, which was written by the US National Intelligence Council

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The US lead in highly skilled labor will likely narrow. China will begin to harvest more shares in investments in human capital, including education, nutrition and healthcare. India faces a challenge because top-flight educational institutions tend to satisfy a relatively advantaged few

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The US will remain the single most important actor in 2025, but it will be less dominant. It will preserve its considerable military advantages, but its scientific and technological advances will slow. US policy is likely to be strongly determined by the developments in a number of key states, particularly China and Russia

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Global wealth and economic power will shift from West to East. Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) are picked as countries which could benefit. Rising oil and commodity prices will create large profits for the Gulf states and Russia. A shift in manufacturing and some service industries to Asia will enrich China and India

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China is ready to have more impact on the world over the next two decades than any other country. If current trends persist, by 2025 China will have the world’s second largest economy, and its military will play an important role

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The transition from old fuels to new will be slow, as will the development of new technologies that present feasible alternatives to fossil fuels or help eliminate food and water problems. All current technologies are inadequate, and new ones will probably not be commercially possible by 2025

       Biomass energy(生物能), often forgotten as promising alternative to oil, received its day in the sun with the gathering of the Bio-Energy World Congress and Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia, late in April, 2007. Nearly 1700 scientists, businessmen and policy-makers, one-quarter from the foreign nations, gathered for a week to discuss various means of squeezing usable energy out of trees, crops, sea plants and urban waste. Biomass energy in the United States contributes 2.5 percent of the total supply, but this amount can be doubled by 2017 and then doubled again by the year 2027.

  Eight percent of Sweden’s energy supply, for example, is presently coming from wood and pulp(紙漿) remaining. Sweden intends to raise this percentage by more intensive harvesting of waste food lying around in forests, and through the planting of so-called energy forests of fast-growing trees such as willow.

  Brazil is frequently pointed to as a nation with a major successful investment in energy coming from grains: it presently runs 330,000 automobiles on a water and alcohol mixture, replacing 10 percent of its previous oil supply. Brazilian representatives at the conference said they wish to double this in five years, with a final goal of total replacement. Most of the cars are built at the factory to use the mixture, while older models are changed through low-cost government programs.

72.   Which of the following statements is supported by the passage?

     A. Nearly 1700 scientists attended the conference.

     B. A quarter of American businessmen were present at the conference.

     C. Foreign policy-makers accounted for a quarter.

     D. Three-quarters of the representatives were from the U.S.

73.   Of the total supply twenty years later, biomass energy in the U.S. will be      ________.

     A. 5%            B. 10%          C. 15%         D. 20%

74.   Which of the following is NOT regarded as biomass energy?

     A. Willow and sea plants.              B. Wood and grains.

     C. Water and alcohol mixture.        D. Crops and oil mixture.

 75.     A suitable title for this passage would be ____________.

       A. An Energy Conference                     B. Approval of Biomass Energy

       C. Bio-Energy for Automobiles              D. Keys to Energy Crisis

KISSI HEALTH-BEAUTY CENTER

With a busy life and job, pressure can make you look tired and aged. Kissi Health-Beauty Center gives classes, makes training plans according to your physical conditions, and sets up an individual file. All these things will help you to get to know your body and the way to keep it fit.

1)      BODY-BUILDING

Imported gym equipment will help you build up your body’s muscles, making you look full of energy and strength.

2)      GYMNASTIC EXERCISES

A bright and large exercise room with excellent equipment and music will give your body a chance to enjoy movement with rhythm.

3)  SPECIAL “LAZY-BONE” FITNESS CENTER

“Lazy-bone” fitness equipment is the first bodyshaping set of seven beds in Houston. Designed according to human anatomic (解剖學(xué)的) and kinematic（運(yùn)動(dòng)學(xué)的）theory， the seven special beds will help you to exercise your waist, abdomen（腹）, hips（臀）or legs. In the relaxing hours you may try them to strengthen your muscles and lose weight.

*Tuition: “Lazy-bone” fitness card, 1000 dollars /month (gymnastic classes  included).

*Open Time: 10:30 a.m. ―10:30 p.m. every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday

*Tel: 59185700

*Address: 16 Johnson Street, Houston

68.   The purpose of this passage is to ______.

      A. give advice on health             B. introduce new ways of body-building

      C. ask you to go to the center     D. introduce ways to lose weight

69.   If you want some exercises as well as relaxation after a busy day, you’ll go to the center and ______________.

       A. learn anatomic and kinematic theory                  

B. sleep on the special beds

      C. join in the gymnastic exercises                       

       D. buy a special card

70.   Tom Everest who keeps a “Lazy-bone” fitness card can go to the center ______ this week.

      A. 11:30 a.m. Monday                 B. 11:30 p.m. Monday

    C. 10:00 a.m. Tuesday                D. 10:00 p.m. Tuesday

71.   According to the passage, the center wants to show it is _____ .

      A. the most convenient             B. the largest   

       C. the newest                          D. the most advanced

At the age of 2, Tai Lihua lost her hearing after a fever. She did not realize she was   50   from other children  until  she  was  7  when  she  was sent to a   51   school for the deaf and mute.

To a little girl who once   52   a beautiful voice, this   53   was almost fatal. She was driven into a deep depression and spent all her time alone. But a music class at the special school totally changed her life.

“Our teacher   54   a drum on the floor and I could feel rhythmic vibration (震動(dòng)) passing under my feet over the floor,” Tai said when remembering her childhood.

She was totally fascinated by the vibration and bent   55   the floor to press her face and hands and even her   56   body to the floor to feel the vibration and rhythm. Dance and rhythm have become her lifelong friends since then. In the following years, whenever she saw dance performances on TV, Tai would like to press her face   57   to the loudspeaker to feel the rhythms of different beats.

When she was 15, she was   58   by the China Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe (劇團(tuán)), an unofficial troupe for special art founded in 1987. She was chosen as a dancer and began to receive   59   dance training. Tai made dance her form of expression through   60   and hard work.

“The only way for me to learn dancing is to remember, repeat, and remember again,   61   I can feel that a band is alongside me and can play music for me at any time,” said Tai. In her eyes, dance is visible and colorful music and a beautiful language to express her inner world.

The persistence and hard work   62  . She became one of the best dancers of the troupe. Along with other members, she has visited over 50 countries and performed in all the world’s leading theaters,   63   New York’s Carnegie Hall and Milan’s La Scala Theater. In 2000, a huge poster of her dance The Soul of the Peacock was   64   in Carnegie Hall, the first time this had been done for a Chinese performer.

The Shanghai Metro Operation Company is planning to introduce more art and fashion elements into its   41   tracks and stations, particularly those   42   Shanghai’s 2010 World Expo.

       Expressing the specific culture of the city will be the   43   features of metro stations by 2010, when the World Expo is staged, according to an international Metro and Expo-related forum last week.

       According to the city officials on the forum, they want to share valuable experiences from other cities all over the world which have   44   used metro stations for art exhibitions.

       “The Metro will be an influential   45   for cultural exhibitions during the 2010 world Expo,” said Ying Minghong, chairman of Shanghai Shentong Metro Group.

       Currently, the city’s 140-kilometer metro network   46   16 percent of the city’s overall public transport volume. By 2010, Shanghai will have 11 metro lines, totaling some 400 kilometers.

       It is estimated that about 50 percent of the   47   400,000 passengers during the World Expo period (from May 1 to October 31, 2010) are expected to use the metro as their major transportation   48  . The huge amount of passengers can   49   a cultural communication through our metro culture.

____ American firms often talk about the vast amounts spent on training their work forces, in fact they invest less in the skills of their employees than either Japanese or German firms.

A. While                B .When                C. If                     D. Because         

In 1969, _____ everyone had dreamed of happened the astronaut landed on the moon.

A. that                  B. what                C. which               D. as

It is the uses to which television is put _____ determine its value to society.

A. they                      B. those                C. that                  D. who

According to the annual report, the output of coal in the province last year was _____ .

A  more than 20 percent in 1990

B. 20 percent more than 1990

C. 20 percent more than that in 1990

I found that my cheating in yesterday’s English test _____ to my parents that very evening.

A. was reported                                         B. had been reported

C. had reported                                         D. was reporting