The doctor telephoned to say that he couldn’t ____ the meeting because he had to ___ a patient.

A. came to; attend to     B. attend; attend          C. join; treat           D. attend on; look after

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A：Now, Jimmy, did you get a good (76) v        _ of the accident?

B：Oh, yes. I was standing (77) o       ___ the bank building and I saw it all quite (78) c     ______.

A：Do you know what time it was?

B：Yes. I (79) c         __ my watch. It was 2:45 exactly.

A：Good. Now, how (80) f        ____ was the truck moving? Was the car going(81) b        ___ the speed limit?

B：Well, quite slowly-about 10 miles an hour. It was coming up York Road.

I (82) s      the truck driver knew the lights were going to (83) c         But they were still red when he went over them.

A：I see. What about the car? Was it also driving slowly?

B：It was coming (84) a       __ Union Street about 30 miles per hour. It was a blue Toyota. The driver stopped his car when he saw the truck (85) c         the street.                                   

A：Did you see what color the traffic lights were?

B：Yes, they changed to yellow just before he crossed the street.

Australian scientists say an organic compound (复合物) used by Indian women to paint dots or bindi on their foreheads could hold the key to a breakthrough in cancer treatment-Rose Bengal was first used in the early 1900s as a dye for food, textiles and cosmetics. But now it is proving to be a useful weapon in the fight against skin cancer.

Television advertisements constantly warn of the dangers of overexposure to the fierce sun. Among them is the possibility of the disease melanoma (黑瘤), a type of skin cancer. More than 1,200 Australians die every year from the disease.

Initial trials of a solution of Rose Bengal injected into some melanoma cells have had a 75 percent success rate in controlling the disease. Professor John Thompson, the director of the Melanoma Unit at the University of Sydney, says this organic dye could become a powerful cancer-fighting treatment.

“We believe it works by getting into the tumor (肿块) cells and causing them to self-destruct. But the exact mechanism by which it works is not totally clear. It’s not useful for people who have a primary melanoma. The treatment of primary melanoma is surgical excision(切除),” he said. “It's useful to inject tumors for people who have recurrences: when the primary treatment has failed and when recurrence in the area, or at more distant sites has occurred.”

About 90 percent of Australians who develop melanoma survive thanks to early diagnosis and treatment. If left untreated, however, the disease can be fatal.

Convincing younger people in Australia about the dangers of overexposure to the sun is a battle campaigners are constantly waging.

Veronica Manock, a 21-year-old student, had two major operations to remove a cancerous tumor from her leg．

“I've had a lot of friends who just said ‘I thought it was just, you know, I'll get a mole (痣) cut out and that's it’, whereas I don't think people realize how much danger they're putting themselves into and how easy it is to stop something like this happening to you just from doing little things,” said Manock.

Other researchers in Australia are investigating genetic treatments to skin cancer. There is a pressing need for such research to produce effective treatments. Australians, the majority of whom are fair-skinned (浅肤色的), are four times more likely to develop a melanoma than people in Canada, the United States or Great Britain.

72. The information about Rose Bengal is wrong EXCEPT that ________.

A. it is no longer used as a dye                              B. it is used to cure skin cancer

C. it is a special kind of rose planted in Australia     D. it can be effective in treating skin cancer

73. The main reason for Australia's high rate in skin cancer is _______.

A. the overuse of cosmetics                     B. overexposure to the sun

C. the color of their skin                          D. the lack of prevention

74. From the passage we can learn that______.

A. skin cancer is incurable

B. some young people seem to know little about the danger of overexposure to the sun

C. about ninety percent of Australians are likely to develop melanoma

D. all moles should be cut out to prevent skin cancer

75. The passage was intended for______.

A. general readers                                 B. people who like taking sun-bathing

C. doctors and researchers                     D. children at school.

Mouse potatoes joined couch potatoes (who spend much time watching TV on the couch), google officially became a verb and drama queens (extremely emotional persons) finally found the attention when they crossed over from popular culture to mainstream English language.

The mouse potato, the himbo (attractive, empty-headed man) and drama queen were among 100 new words added to the 2006 update of America's best-selling dictionary, the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary《韦氏大词典》. The Internet search engine Google also found its way into the dictionary for the first time as a verb, meaning to find information quickly on the world wide web.

New words and phrases from the fields of science, technology, pop culture and industry are chosen each year by Merriam-Webster's team of editors after months of looking through books, magazines and even food labels. "They are not tracking spoken language. They are looking for evidence that words have been used in the written English language," said Arthur Bicknell, senior editor of Merriam-Webster.

Other words first coming into the dictionary this year were soul patch (a small growth of beard under a man's lower lip), unibrow (two eyebrows joining together) and supersize ― the fast food industry phrase for extra large meals.

The technology world contributed ringtones (changeable incoming cellphone call signals) and spyware (software installed in a computer to track a user's activities) while biodiesel (生物柴油) and avian influenza (禽流感) came from the world of science.

America's first dictionary ― Noah Webster's A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language ― was published 200 years ago and also introduced some fresh words that have now become familiar. Those "new" words in 1806 included slang, surf, psychology, naturally and Americanize.

68. The mouse potato refers to_______.

A. a mouse that lives by potatoes

B. a person who spends much time on the computer

C. a mouse that is shown on the screen of the computer

D. a person who likes to eat mice and potatoes

69. Which group of words and phrases is not the fresh words for the dictionary of this year?

A. mouse potatoes, google, drama queen.

B. himbo, soul patch, unibrow, supersize.

C. ringtones, spyware, biodiesel, avian influenza.

D. couch potatoes, surf, psychology, Americanize.

70. Which of the following statements is not true according to the text?

A. New words and phrases were introduced into the dictionary have close relationship with the time.

B. New words and phrases chosen by the editors of the dictionary have been used in written English somewhere.

C. Some words that are now familiar to us used to be fresh words collected in the dictionary.

D. The Merriam-webster Collegiate Dictionary becomes the best-seller because 100 new words are added to it.

71. The text is mainly about that _____.

A. 100 fresh words are added to the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary

B. English words change their meaning with the time passing by

C. English language is becoming more and more difficult to learn

D. the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary will leave out some old words and introduce some new ones.

Special Bridges Help Animals Cross the Road

―Reported by Sheila Carrick

Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side.

Most people know this joke. But recently, some people have been much more worried about how the grizzly bear (灰熊) and mountain lion can cross the road.

“Millions of animals die each year on U.S. roads,” the Federal Highway Administration reports. In fact, only about 80 ocelots, an endangered wild cat, exist in the U.S. today. The main reason? Roadkill.

“Ecopassages (生态通道)” may help animals cross the road without being hit by cars. They are paths both over and under roads. “These ecopassages can be extremely useful, so that wildlife can avoid road accidents,” said Jodi Hilty of the Wildlife Protection Society.

But do animals actually use the ecopassages? The answer is yes. Paul Beier of Northern Arizona University found foot marks left by mountain lions on an ecopassage that went under a highway. This showed that the lions used the passage.

Builders of ecopassages try to make them look like a natural part of an area by planting trees on and around them. Animals seem to be catching on. Animals as different as salamanders (火蜥蜴) and grizzly bears are using the bridges and underpasses.

The next time you visit a park or drive through an area with a lot of wildlife, look around. You might see an animal overpass!

60. The writer uses the example of “ocelots” to show that _______.

A. wild animals have become more dangerous

B. the driving conditions have improved greatly

C. the measure for protecting wildlife fails to work

D. an increasing number of animals are killed in road accidents

61. From the news story, we know an ecopassage is ________.

A. an underground path for cars                       B. a fence built for the safety of the area

C. a bridge for animals to get over a river          D. a path for animals to cross the road

62. When the writer says that animals seem “to be catching on”, he means ________.

A. animals begin to realize the dangers on the road   

60. D 通过“ocelots”的例子来说明前面“Millions of animals die each year on U.S. roads,”这句话，

61. D。 “Ecopassages (生态通道)” may help animals cross the road without being hit by cars帮助动物穿过马路而不被车碰撞

62. B 从 Animals seem to be catching on. Animals as different as salamanders (火蜥蜴) and grizzly bears are using the bridges and underpasses.这句话可知动物在使用这些桥和路

63. D 让人们过马路时注意保护动物，不要碰撞到他们。

C. animals are crossing the road in groups               D. animals are increasing in number

63. The writer asks visitors and drivers to look around when traveling because ________.

A. wild animals may attack cars                       B. wild animals may block the road

C. they may see wild animals in the park           D. they may see wild animals on ecopassages

During the Spring Festival of 2008, southern China saw a snow disaster never seen in more than 50 years. It snowed continuously for half a month, ___36__ all the transportation. Many people were trapped in the stations and ___37___ in cars. Governments and people did everything they could ___38___ the snow disaster, no one was killed __ 39___ cold and hunger. Many moving stories happened during the ___40___. And a moving story of a swallow couple was ___41___on the Internet.

The swallow couple had not eaten anything for several days ___42__ the snow. They tried to fly into people's home to warm themselves, but every house was closed ___43__. They got to a side of a balcony ___44__ wind could not reach. The wife's body was __45__, she could not move any longer. The husband wrapped his wife with his wings. The husband lost his __46__ soon. The couple died, one __47__ another.

The next morning, the housemaster saw the __48__ swallows embracing together. Thinking of the __49__ the snow had brought to the people, he was __50__ to tears. He found a small box,   __51__   it with some hay and __52__ the swallow couple in, then buried them in the garden.

In the roof of my house lives a swallow family .They come back from the __53__ every spring to have babies. Then in autumn, they fly to the south for __54__. I wonder if they will come back this spring as they __55__.

―Excuse me, sir. I'd like to know if ￡500 can ________ the cost of a travel to Beijing?

―I'm afraid not.

A. provide             B. pay              C. cover                D. afford

You should have informed me that the lecture was canceled. I  _____ all the way here through the heavy rain.

A. mustn't have run      B. can't have run      C. shouldn’t have run     D. needn't have run

Woman ___ Hillary Clinton is, she was bold enough to participate in the presidential campaign, 2008．

A. who                     B. as                 C. that                 D. like

The more one is _________ the English-speaking environment, the better he or she will learn the language．

A. exposed to              B. filled in                   C. caught on                   D. kept up