It seems certain that these “kings of the mountains” are moving.Why?Scientists are not sure.Some think that as the mountain lion population increases in the west,younger wild cats are leaving the area.These cats are searching for new homes and new places for food.

“The young males are looking for new homes,” says Lynn Sadler,who is the director of the Mountain Lion Foundation in Sacramento,Calif.“People tend to create too many barriers(障碍),such as buildings,fences,roads,and noise.As the mountain lions seek new places and food and water sources(水源),these barriers get in their way.”

The sightings have made people increasingly watchful.Sometimes the “mountain lions” that people report seeing turn out to be large dogs or even house cats.But at least a few of the meetings have been real.The building of new roads,the growing of suburbs and the growing popularity of outdoor activities are all increasing the chances that people in various parts of the country may meet up with a mountain lion.

Because many people are concerned about the reappearance of the American lion,an expert outlined some ways they can avoid attracting the wild cats:Never leave pets or pet food outside;properly care for farm animals;and plan public land use to enable the lions to move safely from one place to another.

“To be fair,” says the expert,“mountain lions are trying to regain their homes.They were here first.Now we need to find ways we can live together.”

1.Mountain lions are moving probably because ________.

A.the suburbs of big cities are peaceful and quiet

B.more roads are being built into the mountains

C.the number of the lions increases in the west

D.young lions are seeking new partners

2.According to the passage,it is clear that _________.

A.the reported sightings of mountain lions have not been proved

B.people walking in the country may come across a lion

C.fences have been built to protect the lions

D.mountain lions prefer populated areas

3.To avoid attracting mountain lions,people are advised_______.

A.to build more roads for the lions to move safely

B.to keep a close watch on their farm animals

C.not to stay outdoors

D.not to raise pets

4.Which is the best title for the passage?

A.Mountain Lions in Unlikely Places

B.Measures Taken to Avoid Lions

C.Number of Sightings Going Up

D.Mountain Lions Moving West

Man has been polluting the earth.The more people,the more pollution.Many years ago,the problem was not so serious because there were not so many people.When the land was used up or the river was dirty in one place,Man moved to another place.But this is no longer true.Man is now slowly polluting the whole world.

Air pollution is still the most serious.It's bad for all living things in the world,but it is not the only one kind of pollution.Water pollution kills our fish and pollutes our drinking water.Noise pollution makes us angry more easily.

Many countries are making rules to fight pollution.They stop people from burning coal in houses and factories in the city,and from putting dirty smoke into the air.

Pollution bycarbon dioxide is now the most dangerous kind of air pollution.It is caused by heavy traffic.It is true that if there are fewer people driving,there will be less air pollution.

The earth is our home.We must take care of it.That means keeping the land,water and air clean.And we must take care of the rise in population at the same time.

1.Hundreds of years ago,the pollution was_________it is today.

A.much easier than

B.as easy as

C.as hard asD.much less than

2.Our world is becoming much smaller_________.

A.because the earth is being polluted day and night

B.because science is developing

C.because of the rise in population

D.because the earth is blown away by the wind every year

3.Air pollution is the most serious kind of pollution because_________.

A.it does harm to all living things in the world

B.it makes much noise

C.it makes our rivers and lakes dirty

D.it makes us angry more easily

4.Which of the following is NOT true?

A.The problem of pollution is not so serious because there are not so many people living on the earth.

B.The pollution of the earth grows as fast as the world's population does.

C.If people could go to work bike it would be helpful against the problem of carbon dioxide.

D.Many countries are making rules to fight against pollution.

Dreams may be influenced(影响) by different things that are present during sleep.If a person is cold,he may dream that he is out in a snowstorm.Worries or anger may also influence the content of a dream.?

Some people think that they seldom dream,other people are quite sure that they do not dream at all.Studies of human sleep have shown,though,that everyone dreams every night.If a person thinks he does not dream,it is because he does not remember dreaming when he wakes up.Usually,a person may dream three to seven times for a total of one to two hours of dreaming every night.?

Perhaps you are wondering just how research workers can be sure that a person is dreaming.The story behind the discovery is an interesting one.?

During their research studies of human sleep,Dr.Kleitman and his assistant noticed that a person sleeping made sudden eye movements.These movements occurred at least several times a night.When a sleeper was awakened during these periods of eye movement it was learned that he had been dreaming.In most cases,the dreamer could then recall(回忆) his dream.The person's eye movements,scientists believe,were caused by the movements of his eyes as he followed the events of the dream.?

Not only does everyone dream,but it seems that we all need to dream.One theory is that dreaming gives us a chance to escape from the rules of our real world.In dreams we can see our wishes come true.We can be rich,powerful,and successful.?

　　Another theory is that in our dream we are trying to work out problems that have troubled us during waking moments.?

　　Whatever the explanation is,we all do dream,and dreaming is necessary and important to us.?

1.According to the selection,the research studies of human sleep show_____.?

A.few people dream at night?

B.some people dream three times every night?

C.some people may dream all the time during sleep?

D.everyone dreams several times every night?

2.According to the research studies,you may dream of a fire-engine________.?

A.when your alarm clock is ringing?

B.when you feel hungry?

C.when you are cold?

D.when you are ill?

3.According to the selection,you can discover what a sleeping person is dreaming of by _____.?

A.watching him (her) closely?

B.waking him(her) up when he(she) makes sudden eye movements?

C.watching his(her) eye movements?

D.talking to him while he (she) is sleeping?

4.Dreaming is important to us_______.?

A.because scientists help us in our dreams?

B.because we can relax and enjoy a care free life in our dreams?

C.because we can have a good rest?

D.because we can make discoveries in our dreams?

In Revere,Massachusetts,a hundred policemen searched for a lost boy who left his home in his sleep and woke up five hours later on a strange sofa in a strange living room,with no idea how he had got there.?

　　At the University of Iowa,a student was reported to have the habit of getting up in the middle of the night and walking three quarters of a mile to the Iowa River.He would take a swim and then go back to his room to bed.?

　　An expert on sleep in America claims（声称） that he has never seen a sleepwalker.He is said to know more about sleep than any other man alive,and during the last thirty-five years he has lost a lot of sleep watching people sleep.He says.“Of course,I know that there are sleep-walkers because I have read about them in the newspapers.But none of my sleepers ever walked,and if I were to advertise for sleep walkers for an experiment,I doubt whether I could get many takers.”?

Sleepwalking,however,is a scientific reality.It is one of those strange things that sometimes look quite like the fantastic（怪诞的）.Doctors say that sleepwalking is much more common than is generally supposed.Many sleepwalkers do not try to find help and are never recorded.?

1.Generally speaking,sleepwalkers are the ones that _________.

A.can climb on roofs?

B.can walk through windows?

C.can do fantastic things during their sleep?

D.can walk in a half-awake state?

2.It was reported that a boy _________.

A.was found on a strange sofa,telling how he had got there?

B.slept in his own room but woke up in a strange room?

C.lost his way five hours after he left home?

D.was searched for by policemen because he lost his way?

3.The passage mentions a college student who got into the habit of _________.?

A.getting up in the middle of the night and walking out?

B.walking three quarters of a mile every day?

C.swimming in the Iowa River before going to bed?

D.walking about before he went to bed?

4.An American expert knows more about sleep than any other man alive _________.?

A.because he can get many takers for his experiment?

B.because he has had trouble with sleep for 30 years?

C.but he says he has never seen sleepers walk?

D.but he has nobody to sleep together with him?

5.People think sleepwalking is nothing but one of the fantastic things without any explanation.Why??

A.It is so common that it needn't be recorded.?

B.Scientists take no interest in it.?

C.Doctors don't want to care about it.?

D.No records about it have been made.

Suppose you are a visitor in the land of Mongolia(蒙古).Some friends ask you to eat with them.What kind of manners do they want you to have? They want you to give a loud “burp(打嗝)”after you finish eating.Burping would show that you liked their food.?

　　In some countries,if you give a loud burp,you are told to say,“Excuse me,please.” In many places people like to eat together.But in some parts of Polynesia(伯利尼西亚)it is bad manners to be seen eating at all.People show their good manners by turning their backs on others while they eat.?

　　What are good manners like in an East African town? The people try not to see you for being polite.You may see a friend,but he may not see you at all.If you?re polite,you'd better sit down beside him and wait until he finishes what he is doing.Then he will talk to you.?

　　Suppose you visit a friend in Arabia(阿拉伯).You should walk behind the other tents until you come to his tent.If you pass in front of the other tents,you will be asked into each one.The people will ask you to eat with them,and it is bad manners if you say no.?

　　Manners are different all over the world.But it is good to know that all manners begin in the same way.People needed ways to show that they wanted to be friends.

1.In Mongolia,if the guest gives a loud burp,the host will _______.?

A.give the guest more food?

B.give the guest some water?

C.be happy?

D.be annoyed?

2.What can we infer from the text about good manners in Arabia??

A.It's bad manners if you walk in front of other people's tents.?

B.It's bad manners if you don't invite the man who walks in front of your tent to eat with you.?

C.It's good manners to refuse others' invitation to dinner politely when you pass in front of their tents.?

D.People with good manners never refuse other people.?

3.Which of the following is NOT bad manners in China??

A.To give a loud burp after eating.?

B.Turn your back on others while eating.?

C.Keep your friend waiting till you finish what you are doing.?

D.Refuse others' invitation to eat with them politely.?

　　Ken Roberts,the man who found the hare,had been looking for it for nearly two years. Although he had been searching in the wrong area most of the time,he found it by logic(逻辑),not by luck.His success came from the fact that he had gained an important clue at the start.He had realized that the words:“One of Six to Eight” under the first picture in the book connected the hare in some way to Katherine of Aragon,the first of Henry Ⅷ's six wives.Even here,however,Williams had succeeded in misleading him.Ken knew that Katherine of Aragon had died at Kimbolton in Cambridgeshire in 1536 and thought that Williams had buried the hare there.He had been digging there for over a year before a new idea occurred to him.He found out that Kit Willliams had spent his childhood near Ampthil,in Bedfordshire,and thought that he must have buried the hare in a place he knew well,but he still could not see the connection with Katherine of Aragon,until one day he came across two stone crosses in Ampthil Park and learnt that they had been built in her honor in 1773.?

Even then his search had not come to an end.It was only after he had spent several nights digging around the cross that he decided to write to Kit Williams to find out if he was wasting his time there.Williams encouraged him to continue,and on February 24th 1982,he found the treasure.It was worth ￡3000 in the beginning,but the excitement it had caused since its burial made it much more valuable.?

1.The underlined word “them”(Paragraph 1) refers to______ .?

A.red herrings?

B.treasure hunts?

C.Henry Ⅷ's six wives?

D.readers of Masquerade?

2.What is the most important clue in the story to help Ken Roberts find the hare??

A.Two stone crosses in Ampthill.?

B.Stevenson's Treasure Island.??

C.Katherine of Aragon.?

D.Williams hometown.?

3.The stone crosses in Ampthill were built________ .?

A.to tell about what happened in 1773?

B.to show respect for Henry Ⅷ's first wife?

C.to serve as a roadsign in Ampthill Park?

D.to inform people where the gold hare was?

4.Which of the following describes Roberts' logic in searching for the hare??

a.Henry Ⅷ's six wives?

b.Katherine burial place at Kitbolton?

c.William's childhood in Ampthil?

d.Katherine of Aragon?

e.stone crosses in Ampthill Park?

A.a-b-c-e-d?

B.d-b-c-e-a?

C.a-d-b-c-e?

D.b-a-e-c-d?

5.What is the subject discussed in the text??

A.An exciting historical event.?

B.A modern treasure hunt.?

C.The attraction of Masquerade.?

D.The importance of logical thinking?

　　Professor Henslow was interested in Lyell's ideas，but he did not actually believe them.Charles Darwin could not make up his mind about them.But they set him thinking along lines which would later change the beliefs of thoughtful people all over the world.?

　　 At Cambridge，Charles Darwin studied just enough to pass the examination，and received his college degree in 1831.During this time，he had become more and more interested in geology.At the end of the school year，he went to North Wales with one of his teachers to examine the rock formations(构成) and to search for fossils(化石).Fossils are the remains of ancient living things.They are usually found fixed in rocks in the earth's crust(地壳).Fossils may be of animals，such as fish，insects，birds，or humans. They may be of plants from tiny leaves to huge trees.

　　When a living creature dies，it usually decays(腐烂)or is eaten by animals.However，if it sinks into a riverbed(河床) or is quickly covered by the blowing sands of a desert storm，the bones are kept up in the earth.Over many years the soft inner parts of a bone disappear，leaving the inside hollow(空的).Water containing mineral enters into the hollow.Slowly the mineral hardens and makes the bone hard and heavy，like stone.?

1.According to Charles Lyell，it is mainly ______ that the earth has been formed like today's shape.

A.from the beginning of time?

B.past some experiences of big flood?

C.over a very long period of years?

D.because of several big earthquakes

2.Charles Lyell believed the fact that a mountain is formed ______.?

A.more by seas than by volcanoes?

B.more slowly than suddenly?

C.more by an earthquake than by winds?

D.more steadily than quickly

3.Unlike Professor Henslow，Charles Darwin ______.

A.never thought Lyell's ideas were right?

B.did made up his mind not to accept Lyell's ideas?

C.thought about what the world were then thinking about?

D.thought over Lyell's ideas and developed them

4.The main purpose of Darwin's going to North Wales was to ______.?

A.make a study of fossils?

B.appreciate the rock information?

C.to do research work into dead animals?

D.look for plants from tiny leaves to huge trees

5.In which order are fossils formed?

a.A living thing sinks into a riverbed or sands.?

b.Water goes into a bone hollow together with mineral.?

c.Something soft in a bone disappears.?

d.The hardened mineral makes the bone hard.

e.The bone becomes hollow inside.?

A.a b c d e

B.c a b e d

C.a c e b d

D.e c d b a

　　Scientists are working to use that energy to make electricity. Most waves are created when winds blow across the ocean.“ The wind starts out by making little ripples(涟漪),but if they keep on blowing, those ripples get bigger and bigger and turn into waves, ” Taylor said.“ Waves are one of nature's ways of picking up energy and then sending it off on a journey.”?

　　When waves come toward the shore, people can set up darns to block the water and send it through a large wheel called a turbine (涡轮机).The turbine can then power an electrical generator to produce electricity.?

　　“The resource is huge,” said Janet Swain of the World watch Institute. “We will never run out of wave power.” Besides, wave energy does not create the same pollution as other energy sources, such as oil or coal. Oceans cover three quarters of the Earth's surface—that would make wave power seem ideal for creating energy throughout the world, though there are some weak points yet to overcome.?

　　 Swain said that wave power still costs too much money. She also said that its effects on sea animals are still unknown. What is more, wave power could affect fishing and boat traffic.?

　　 Traditional sources of energy like oil and gas may someday run out.“ Demand for energy to power our TVs and computers, drive our cars, and heat and cool our homes is rising rapidly throughout the world,” Swain said. In the future when you turn on a light, an ocean wave could be providing the electricity!

1.The writer uses the two questions at the beginning of the passage to 　　.?

A.test the readers' knowledge about waves?

B.draw the readers' attention to the topic?

C.show Jamie Taylor's importance?

D.invite the readers to answer them?

2.The underlined phrase “picking up” (Paragraph 2) is closest in meaning to 　　.?

A.starting again

B.speeding up?

C.gathering

D.improving?

3.We can make better use of wave energy if we 　　.?

A.shorten its journey to thousands of homes?

B.build more small power stations on the oceans?

C.reduce the cost of turning it into electric power?

D.quicken the steps of producing electricity?

4.It can be inferred that some day we might not worry about　　 .?

A.air pollution

B.our boat traffic?

C.our power supply

D.our supply of sea fish

The curriculum includes ordinary coursework as well as Japanese, English, embroidery(刺绣),the tea ceremony and Chinese and Western table manners.?

Many of the finer points of femininity(妇女气质) lapsed when women were urged to strive for equal rights and forget their feudal traditions, said course director Professor Sun Xun.

“After 1949,government policies emphasized women's rights so there were no women's colleges; they went to ordinary colleges,”he said.?

　　In the 1990s,the idea of all female colleges resurfaced. However, the new breed of women's colleges are not aiming to be centers of academic excellence modelled on Girton at Cambridge or Radcliffe on the U.S. east coast.?

　　Rather, these ,new finishing schools are modeled on the Swiss ideal of turning out young ladies who know how best to get out of a car, or arrange a bunch of flowers.? “We started the women's college because although there is emphasis on women's equality in society ,women's special talents are different,” said Sun.?

　　With China entering the World Trade Organization and the country's big cities becoming more cosmopolitan(世界性的),young people need to grasp international manners to succeed in business.?

　　Suggestions that these schools will merely turn out “Flower vases”—Chinese slang for trophy women who are empty but beautiful—are denied by the administration and students.“I can answer that accusation with facts, we are very capable. There is one girl in my course who already has written her first novel. Perhaps other people are just jealous,” said Huang.?

　　One woman who is sure that finishing schools will gain ground in China is June Yamada ,a Japanese entrepreneur who aims to set up a “Style Academy” in partnership with the Jinmao Group that co-owns Shanghai's Grand Hyatt hotel.?

　　Yamada hopes to sell training courses to corporations or aspiring career girls who want to work for international firm but still spit their chicken bones onto the table.?

“People need elegance .They need manners, and that is not the kind of thing that you find in university,” she explains.?

　　Shanghai Normal University, accepts only girls over 1.62 meters for Women's College courses because many companies place an emphasis on women being tall and pretty before considering them for jobs.?

　　But while many Chinese films do set height standards, the idea is unknown at multinationals.“I've seldom seen that kind of thing. As I recall, my secretary was quite short,” says Shah Olynik ,a public relations consultant who formerly worked for a major U.S.PR firm.?

1.When you want to eat banana at home, you'd better _______.?

A.cut it open?　　　　　　 B.eat after peeling off the skin?

C.slice into pieces?　　 D.eat with a fork

2.We started women's college because_______.?

A.it is necessary to know women's the correct way to eat a banana?

B.woman should know how to get out of a car or arrange a bunch of flowers?

C.we wanted to emphasize women's rights?

D.it is necessary to own woman's special talents

3.According to the text, we can know _______.?

A.the women at the Shanghai Normal University must be over one point and six two metersB.the students in the Normal University must be good at embroidery?

C.it's wrong to think girls in women's colleges are empty but beautiful.?

D.many international companies attend to pay more attention to the women's appearance

4.Which of the following statements is NOT true??

A.In 1976,most woman would be possibly accepted by ordinary colleges.?

B.In 1993,maybe female colleges aimed to be centers of academic centers excellence centers.?

C.As a member of the World Trade Organization, oung people should grasp international manners.?

D.Some companies don't set height standards.

5.The best title would be _______.?

A.Female Grace Returns?

B.Shanghai Normal University?

C.Women's Equality in Society?

D.Women Need Elegance