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People travel for a lot of reasons.Some tourists go to see battlefields or religious shrines (宗教圣地).Others are looking for culture,or simply want to have their pictures taken in front of famous places.But most European tourists are looking for a sunny beach to lie on.
Northern European are willing to pay a lot of money and put up with a lot of inconveniences for the sun because they have so little of it.People of cities like London,Copenhagen,and Amsterdam spend a lot of their winter in the dark because the days are so short,and much of the rest of the year in the rain.This is the reason why the Mediterranean has always attracted them.Every summer,more than 25 million people travel to Mediterranean resort and beaches for their vacation. They all come for the same reason:sun!
The huge crowds mean lots of money for the economies of Mediterranean countries. Italy’s 30,000 hotels are booked every summer.And 13 million people camp out on French beaches,parks and roadsides.Spain’s long sandy coastline attracts more people than anywhere else.37 million tourists visit yearly,or one tourist for every person living in Spain.
But there are signs that the area is getting more tourism than it can handle.The Mediterranean is already one of the most polluted seas on earth.And with increased tourism,it’s getting worse, The French can’t figure out what to do with all the garbage left by campers around St.Tropez.And in many places,swimming is dangerous because of pollution.
None of this,however,is spoiling anyone’s fun.The Mediterranean gets more popular every year with tourists.Obviously,they don’t go there for clean water and solitude(独居).They bear traffic jams and seem to like crowded beaches.They don’t even mind the pollution.No matter how dirty the water is,the coastline still looks beautiful.And as long as the sun shines,it’s still better than sitting in the cold rain in Berlin,London,or Oslo.
51.The writer seems to imply that Europeans travel mostly for the reason that           .
A.they want to see historic remains or religious spots
B.they are interested in different cultural traditions and social customs
C.they would like to take pictures in front of famous sites
D.they wish to escape from the cold,dark and rainy days back at home
52.In paragraph2,cities like London,Copenhagen,and Amsterdam are mentioned.
A.to show that they are not good cities in terms of geography and climate
B.to tell us how wealthy their people are
C.to suggest that these cities lack places of historic interest and scenic beauty
D.to prove that they have got more tourism than they handle
53.According to the passage,which of the following countries attracts more tourists than the others?
A.Italy                   B.Spain                        C.Greece                   D.France
54.The latter half of the last sentence in paragraph 3,“or one tourist for every person living in Spain”means              .
A.all the 37 million people living in Spain are tourists
B.every  year almost as many tourists visit Spain as there are people living in that country
C.every person living in Spain has to take care of a tourist
D.every Spanish is visited by a tourist every year
55.According to the passage,which of the following factors might spoil the tourists’fun at
Mediterranean resorts and beaches?
A.Polluted water.                        B.Crowded buses. 
C.Traffic jams.                      D.Rainy weather.

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An eighteen-year-old high school student from Utah won the top prize in the Intel Science Talent Search in the United States. The winner received a computer and a scholarship for a college education.
More than 1,500students from across the country entered projects in the competition this year. Their research included chemistry, medicine, physics, mathematics, engineering, and computer science-almost every area of science.
Forty students were invited to Washington, D.C. for the final judging. A group of scientists judged them on their research abilities, critical thinking skills and creativity. The judges also questioned the students about scientific problems before deciding on the winners.
The top winner received 100,000 dollars for college. Shannon Babb of American Fork High School studied the water quality of tile Spanish Fork River in Utah for six years. She found that people have a harmful effect on the river through human activity, including agriculture. And she suggested ways to improve the water quality in the future. These include educating the public not to put household chemicals down the drains(下水道), which lead to the river eventually.
Seventeen-year-old Yi Sun of the Hanker School in San Jose, California, earned the second place. He won a 75,000-dollar scholarship for new discoveries about a mathematical theory known as random walks. His work could help computer scientists and chemists. Yi Sun was born in China.
The third-place winner was also seventeen and born in China. Yuan “Chelsea” Zhang of Montgomery Blair High School in Rockville, Maryland, won a 50,000-dollar scholarship. She researched the molecular genetics(分子遗传学)of heart disease. Her findings could aid the development of new medicines.
The Intel Science Talent Search is the oldest science competition for high school students in the United States. It is 65 years old this year. Past winners have gone on to receive six Nobel prizes and other top honors in science and math.
What do we know about the talent search project?

A.Most of its winners have received Nobel prizes.
B.The project includes researches in every area of science.
C.Only a small part of the students can attend the final judging.
D.Most of the winners come from Asian countries.

According to the text, .

A.water quality in Utah will be better than that in the other states
B.the river was polluted only by those living near it
C.Shannon Babb suggested more than one way to improve the water quality
D.household chemicals should be kept in the drains forever

Which of the following about the girl from Maryland is NOT true?

A.The scholarship she received was half as many as Shannon Babb.
B.Her discovery is of great help to Chinese medicine.
C.Her research will contribute to the cure of heart disease.
D.She and the second-place winner Yi Sun have something in common.

What is the text mainly about?

A.Three winners' contributions to science and math.
B.Three Chinese students won the Science Talent Search.
C.Great rewards were given to winners in the competition.
D.Winners of the Intel Science Talent Search in the US.

Where are you most likely to find this text?

A.In a newspaper. B.In a handbook. C.In a textbook. D.In a medical magazine.


You have probably heard of the Mozart effect. It’s the idea that if children or even babies listen to music composed by Mozart, they will become more intelligent. A quick Internet search reveals plenty of products to assist you in the task. Whatever your age there are CDs and books to help you taste the power of Mozart’s music, but when it comes to scientific evidence that it can make you more clever, the picture is more mixed.
The phrase “the Mozart effect” was made up in 1991, but it was a study described two years later in the journal Nature that sparked real media and public interest about the idea that listening to classical music somehow improves the brain. It is one of those ideas that sound reasonable. Mozart was undoubtedly a genius himself; his music is complex and there is a hope that if we listen to enough of it ,we’ll become more intelligent.
The idea took off, with thousands of parents playing Mozart to their children, and in 1998 Zell Miller, the Governor of the state of Georgia in the US, even asked for money to be set aside in the state budget so that every newborn baby could be sent a CD of classical music. It was not just babies and children who were exposed to Mozart’s music on purpose, even an Italian farmer proudly explained that the cows were played Mozart three times a day to help them to produce better milk.
I’ll leave the debate on the impact on milk yield to farmers, but what about the evidence that listening to Mozart makes people more intelligent? More research was carried out but an analysis of sixteen different studies confirmed that listening to music does lead to a temporary improvement in the ability to handle shapes mentally, but the benefits are short-lived and it doesn’t make us more intelligent.
What can we learn from paragraph 1?

A.Mozart composed many musical pieces for children.
B.Children listening to Mozart will be more intelligent.
C.There are few products on the Internet about Mozart’s music.
D.There is little scientific evidence to support Mozart effect.

Why did many people believe in the idea of Mozart Effect?

A.Because a study described it in the journal Nature.
B.Because Mozart himself was a genius.
C.Because Mozart’s music is enjoyable.
D.Because Mozart’s music makes people relaxed.

The underlined sentence in paragraph3 suggests that .

A.people were strongly against the idea
B.the idea was accepted by many people
C.Mozart played an important part in people’s life
D.the US government helped promote the idea

What is the author’s attitude towards the Mozart effect?

A.Favorable B.Objective C.Doubtful D.Positive

What would be the best title for the passage?

A.Listening to Mozart , necessary? B.What music is beneficial?
C.What is the Mozart effect? D.To be or not to be?

During the last fifteen years of my mother's life she suffered with Alzheimer's disease (老年痴呆). Until then she had been a bright, cheerful woman deeply interested and involved in the world around her. I would go home to visit her in Virginia and she would look at me in a puzzled way and ask, “Who are you?” I would answer, “I'm your son.” “Where do you live?” She would ask. “In California”, I would tell her. “Isn't that interesting,” she would say, “I have a son in California.”
She seemed simply forgetful and confused at the beginning of the disease, but later on she would go through periods of intense anxiety. She would pace through the house she had lived in most of her life crying uneasily that she wanted to go home. Or she would leave home and wander away if she were unattended for a short time.
Hoping to please her and put her mind at ease I would take her for a drive, visiting sites where she had lived as a child. In the yard of the hillside house in Shipman I sat in the car and admired the view of the old oaks and long green lawn. I pictured my mother there was a little girl playing with the pet lamb she had been so fond of. I looked to her for some response. She shook her head and said, “I want to go home.”
Over the years I have decided that what my mother was calling home was not a place, but a time. I suspect it was a time when she was much younger, when her children were still underfoot, when her husband was still vigorous and attentive.
Watching my mother's suffering set me wondering where I would have gone in mind if someday I couldn’t find home and wanted to go there. In this family we tend to be long-lived and we grow fuzzy (糊涂的) minded as the years go by. At eighty I have already noticed some alarming symptoms. My doctor says the forgetfulness is only natural and that it comes with age. Still the fear of Alzheimer's is haunting there. Someday if and when I become even more cloudy minded than I am now, unable to drive and unable to tell you where "home" is, my dear son, I expect I will ask you to take me home, I know you will do your best to find the place I need to be. I leave these notes for your guidance.
What's the main idea of the first two paragraphs?

A.The author’s mother suffered with serious Alzheimer's disease.
B.The author’s mother forgot who’s his son.
C.The author didn’t know how to cure his mother.
D.The author’s mother couldn’t find her home.

What is not the symptom of the author’s mother ?

A.cheerful B.confused C.forgetful D.uneasy

What’s the meaning of the underlined word “pictured”?

A.photographed B.appeared C.described D.painted

What can you infer from the third paragraph?

A.The author care much about his mother.
B.The author’s mother was fond of pet lambs.
C.The author saw a little girl playing with a pet lamb.
D.The author’s mother didn’t like her usual home.

What’s the best title of the passage?

A.Take Mother Home.
B.Everyone will suffer with Alzheimer's disease.
C.A story about a son and a mother.
D.Where Is Home?

America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon if situations change. Neither side feels hurt by this. Both may exchange Christmas greetings for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while — then no more. If the same two people meet again by chance, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand, because friendships between us flower more slowly but then may become lifelong feelings, extending (延伸) sometimes deeply into both families.
Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. They will enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept their hospitality (好客) easily.
Another difficult point for us Chinese to understand Americans is that although they include us warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don’t show their politeness to us if it requires a great deal of time. This is usually the opposite of the practice in our country where we may be generous with our time. Sometimes, we, as hosts, will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take days off to act as guides to our foreign friends. The Americans, however, express their welcome usually at homes, but truly can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily routine. They will probably expect us to get ourselves from the airport to our own hotel by bus. And they expect that we will phone them from there. Once we arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real. We will find ourselves treated hospitably.
For the Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to go to restaurants, except for purely business matters. So accept their hospitality at home!
The writer of this passage must be ______.

A.an American B.a Chinese C.a professor D.a student

Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A.Friendships between Americans usually extend deeply into their families.
B.Friendships between Americans usually last for all their lives.
C.Americans always show their warmth even if they are very busy.
D.Americans will continue their friendships again even after a long break.

From the last two paragraphs we can learn that when we arrive in America to visit an American friend, we will probably be ______.

A.warmly welcomed at the airport
B.offered a ride to his home
C.treated hospitably at his home
D.treated to dinner in a restaurant

The underlined words “generous with our time” in Paragraph 3 probably mean ______.

A.strict with time
B.serious with time
C.careful with time
D.willing to spend time

A suitable title for this passage would probably be “______”.

A.Friendships between Chinese
B.Friendships between Americans
C.Americans’ hospitality
D.Americans’ and Chinese’s views of friendships

A shop worker nicknamed(绰号) Little Fatty told of his shock at becoming a Susan Boyle-like Internet star after a perfect Whitney Houston performance on a TV talent(才能)show. Lin Yuqun, 24, won over the judges and the audience of the Million Star show with perfect performances of Whitney Houston’s I will Always Love You , and has got 480,000 hits on video sharing website You Tube.
“I am shocked that I can draw so much attention. I'm really moved and happy that people like my performance of Whitney's song,” said Lin, who works part-time at a musical instrument shop. “I've loved singing since I was a little boy and I feel like I am living my dream now. I hope I can pursue(追求) a career in singing,” he told reporters.
Reporters called him “China’s Susan Boyle”, describing him as “plain-looking and short”, but Lin, who has the nickname “Little Fatty”, told reporters the comparison made him proud. “I am honoured to be compared to Susan Boyle. I am inspired and encouraged by her because she proved that even a person who's seen as an underdog(弱者) and who has ordinary looks can shine on the stage,” Lin said.
Since his performance was posted on Youtube late last week, he has been the subject of heated conversation in on-line chat rooms on American Yahoo! and other foreign websites. “Lin really is amazing. Whitney couldn’t do it any better today, ” a viewer wrote on YouTube.
Scottish single Susan Boyle got recognized around the world after she was discovered last year on the British’s Got Talent television show with her performance of I Dreamed a Dream from Les Miserables, which was the best-selling debut(首演)in British chart history and also topped the US charts.
What do we know about Lin Yuqun?

A.He has a great talent for singing.
B.He works quite hard as a shop owner.
C.He sings better than Susan Boyle.
D.He likes watching TV best.

It seemed that Lin Yuqun _________.

A.was not surprised that he could be famous.
B.felt lost after the talent show.
C.learnt to sing at a musical instrument shop.
D.wants to become a singer.

Why does Lin Yuqun speak highly of Susan Boyle?

A.Because she is as ordinary as him.
B.Because she is a famous singer now.
C.Because he gets confidence from her.
D.Because she brings good luck to him

By saying “Whitney couldn’t do it any better today”, the viewer means __________.

A.Whiteny doesn't sing well any longer.
B.Lin Yuqun sings as well as Whitney
C.Lin Yuqun has gone beyond Whitney
D.Lin Yuqun can develop his singing better

On a website, you may read the article in the column of _________.

A.education. B.fashion C.science D.Art

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