姓名：杨利伟

出生年月：1965年6月

籍贯：辽宁省绥中县

简历：1983年6月参军

1992年调到成都空军某部

1996年8月1500名飞行员参加体检，杨利伟进入14人之列

1998年1月正式成为我国首批航天员，经过5年训练光荣地选为我国首次载人航天飞行首飞队成员

2003年10月15日乘“神州5号”飞船遨游太空

出生于农民家庭，从儿时起向往蓝天，在部队聪明好学，训练刻苦。

参考词汇：astronaut 宇航员 manned-space aircraft 载人航天飞机 research 研究 candidate 候选人

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Until relatively recently, the vast majority of human beings lived and died without ever seeing a city. The first city was probably founded no more than 5,500 years ago. 【1】 In fact, nearly everyone lived on farms or in tiny rural (乡村的) villages. It was not until the 20th century that Great Britain became the first urban society in history — a society in which the majority of people live in cities and do not farm for a living.

Britain was only the beginning. 【2】 The process of urbanization — the migration (迁徙) of people from the countryside to the city — was the result of modernization, which has rapidly transformed how people live and where they live.

In 1900, fewer than 40% of Americans lived in urban areas. Today, over 82% of Americans live in cities. Only about 2% live on farms. 【3】

Large cities were impossible until agriculture became industrialized. Even in advanced agricultural societies, it took about ninetyfive people on farms to feed five people in cities. 【4】 Until modern times, those living in cities were mainly the ruling elite (精英) and the servants, laborers and professionals who served them. Cities survived by taxing farmers and were limited in size by the amount of surplus food that the rural population produced and by the ability to move this surplus from farm to city.

Over the past two centuries, the Industrial Revolution has broken this balance between the city and the country. 【5】 Today, instead of needing ninetyfive farmers to feed five city people, one American farmer is able to feed more than a hundred nonfarmers.

A．That kept cities very small.

B．The rest live in small towns.

C. The effects of urban living on people should be considered.

D. Soon many other industrial nations became urban societies.

E．But even 200 years ago, only a few people could live in cities.

F．Modernization drew people to the cities and made farmers more productive.

G．Modern cities have destroyed social relations and the health of human beings.

【1】 In the afternoon, the residents enjoy reading or telling stories to the children, and if a child is feeling sad or tired, there is always a kind lap to sit on and a cuddle (拥抱). There are trips out and birthday parties too.

【2】The children are happy because they get a lot more individual attention, and respond well because someone has time for them. They see illness and death and learn to accept them. The residents are happy because they feel useful and needed. They are more active and more interested in life when the children are around and they take more interest in their appearance too.

【3】There are many reasons for this, including the breakdown of the extended family, working parents with no time to care for aging relations, families that have moved away, and smaller flats with no room for grandparents. But the result is the sameincreasing numbers of children without grandparents and old people who have no contact with children. And more old people who are lonely and feel useless, along with more and more families with young children who desperately need more support. 【4】

That’s why intergenerational programmes, designed to bring the old and the young together, are growing in popularity all over the world. 【5】 Using young people to teach IT skills to older people is one obvious example.

Using old people as volunteer assistants in schools is another, perhaps reading with children who need extra attention.

A．The advantages are enormous for everyone concerned.

B．There are examples of successful attempts all over the world.

C．Nowadays there is less and less contact between the old and the young.

D．However, there are some similarities between the old and the young

E．The children and the residents eat lunch together and share activities.

F．No previous experience can we use to communicate between them.

G．It’s a major problem in many societies.

Space elevators might sound like a crazy idea, but they’re something scientists have been working on for decades.

Why would anyone want a space elevator? At the moment, riding in a capsule is the only way ordinary people can get to and from space. But those rides are very expensive — about $25 million per person per flight.

Researchers are still figuring out the details about how a space elevator might work. One idea is stretching (伸展) a very long cable — more than 37,000 kilometers — up to space from the earth’s equator (赤道). The location is important: Objects in space above the equator orbit (绕……的轨道飞行) the earth at the same speed that our planet turns. A weight on the end of the cable would stretch it tight. An elevator tied to the cable could use it to climb up and down.

The only problem is that besides being long, this cable must also be very strong. Storms, including hurricanes might break it. One way to solve this problem is to stretch the cable from the moon instead of from the earth. Airplanes designed to climb higher than a typical jet might take off from the earth and link up with the cable, which would be held in place by the pull of gravity from the earth. An elevator car waiting there would then take riders the rest of the way to the moon. Fueled by solar power, the elevator could transport people and materials without much expense or effort per ride.

So, when will you be taking your first spaceelevator ride? Probably not for a while.

【1】The first paragraph is presented by________.

A. giving an example

B. making a comparison

C. asking questions

D. analyzing causes

【2】Why have scientists been working on space elevators?

A. To make trips to space cheaper.

B. To help astronauts do research in space.

C. To find a more convenient way to the moon.

D. To prove an assumption which seems crazy.

【3】The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 4 refers to ________.

A. the cable

B. the equator

C. an object in space

D. a weight on the end of the cable

【4】Which part of a magazine may the article appear in?

A. Science and technology. B. Sports.

C. Literature. D. Entertainment.

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I passed all the other course that I took at my university, but I could never pass botany. This was why all botany students had to spend several hours a week in a lab look through a microscope at plant cells, but I could never see anything through a microscope. This was used to make my professor angry. “I can’t see everything，” I said. Then he began patient enough to explain how to see through it, but I still couldn’t make it. At last we tried it with every adjustment of the microscope known to men. With my pleasure, I saw something and drew it quickly on the paper. “What’s that？” my professor asked. “That’s what I saw.” I answered. “No, you don’t！” he shouted, and he bent over and looking into the microscope. “That’s your eyes! You’ve fixed the lens so that it reflects! You’ve drawn your eyes！”

14 years ago, SARS broke out in the mainland of China, causing some people to be killed or nearly got close to 【1】 (die). The situation was so severe that there was no time to debate who is to blame. The most 【2】 (importance) thing for the government to do is to find out the cause of this 【3】 (dead) disease. They invited all the most famous experts in this field to discuss and quite a few suggestions were 【4】 (put) forward. Some of the top experts picked out those suggestions and tested them to see whether they were 【5】 (avail). Doctor Zhong chose one patient who was seriously ill and had little hope of picking 【6】 and had the new medicine 【7】 (test) on him. To his great joy, this patient recovered! He made his way 【8】 his office and telephoned to the top official, 【9】 (tell) him this exciting news. For 【10】(convenient), he moved to live in his office. His method did make sense. Not soon after that, the other hospitals also controlled this terrible disease and kicked it out finally.

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2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

Every morning Steve went to work by train. As he has a long trip, he always buys newspaper. It helps make the time passing more quickly. One Tuesday morning, he turned over the sports page. He wanted to see the report about an important football match the night before. The report was so interesting that he forgot to get off at his station. He did not know it unless he saw the sea. He got off at the next station, but had to wait a long time for a train to go back. It was no doubt that he arrived late at the office. His boss was angry when Steve told to him why he was late. “Work is very important than football！” he shouted.

There are several different kinds of people who go to hotels. Some want to live, rather than just stay in a hotel. The hotels which are designed to meet their needs are called residential hotels(公寓旅馆). However, most people who stay in hotels are either business people or tourists on holiday.

In most hotels, there are two kinds of rooms: single rooms, for the use of one person, and double rooms, for the use of two people. In addition, in large hotels, there are also suites (套房) , which include two or more rooms connected together - perhaps a bed-room and a living room. They are for people who are very rich or very important.

【1】One's choice of a particular hotel is made mainly according to ____.

A.how much one is willing to pay for a night

B.whether one is travelling on business or for pleasure

C.whether the hotel is in the central part of a city

D.how good the services of the hotel are

【2】If the president of a certain country comes, he will ____ .

A.live in a new hotel with a suite

B.stay in a single room of a hotel

C.stay in a double room of a hotel

D.stay in a suite of a modern hotel

【3】If a person stays in a modern hotel with latest comforts for a night ____.

A.he will become poor

B.he has to pay a lot of money

C.he has to spend all the money he was in the bank

D.he has to pay some money

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People eat rice all over the world

Rice 【1】 (believe) to have been first grown in China or possibly somewhere else in eastern Asia around 10,000 years ago. 【2】 earliest evidence of rice farming comes from a 7,000-year-old site near the lower Yangtze River village of Hemudu in Zhejiang province in China.

Rice is a kind of food which requires much labor. In developed countries, the planting and harvesting is done 【3】(most) with machines. 【4】, in much of the world, these things are still largely done by hand. It takes one farmer 1,000 to 2,000 working hours【5】(raise)a rice crop on 2.5 acres of land. The fact that rice needs so much labor means 【6】(keep) a lot of the population on the land.

Rice is also a crop 【7】 need of lots of water. The wet rice grown in most of Asia needs hot weather after a period of rain and conditions provided by the rainy seasons affect many of the places 【8】 rice is grown.

Rice straws(稻杆）【9】(leave) in the fields add nutrients(营养物) to the soil after rice is harvested(收割). For the next crop, rice farmers can often enjoy a good harvest by adding little 【10】 no fertilizer.(肥料)