If the world were a village of 1,000 people it would include:
? 584 Asians   ? 124 Africans   ? 95 Eastern and Western Europeans  ? 84 Latin Americans
? 55 former Soviets ( including Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, and other national groups)
? 52 North Americans    ? 6 Australians and New Zealanders
The people of the village would speak:            ? 165 Mandarin（普通话）    ? 86 English   ? 83 Hindu/Urdu   ? 64 Spanish  ? 58 Russian  ? 37 Arabic
The above list covers the mother tongues of only half the village.
One-third of the people in the village are children, and only 60 are over the age of 65. Just under half of the married women in the village have access to modem equipments.
This year 28 babies will be born. Ten people will die, 3 of them for lack of food, 1 from can­cer. Two of the deaths will be of babies born within the year. With the 28 births and 10 deaths, the    population of the village next year will be 1,018.
In this village of 1,000 persons, 200 people receive 75 percent of the income; another 200 re­ceive only 2 percent of the income.
About one-third have access to clean, safe drinking water.
Of the 670 adults in the village, half can not read nor write.
The village has a total yearly budget (预算) , public and private, of over $3 million—$ 3 ,000 per person if it is distributed evenly. Of the total $3 million:
$ 181,000 goes to weapons and warfare
$ 159,000 to education
$ 132,000 to health care
These weapons are under the control of just 100 of the people. The other 900 are watching them with deep anxiety, wondering whether they can learn to get along together.
77. Which of the following is true about Mandarin according to the text?
A. Nearly one-third of Asian people speak Mandarin in the village.
B. About 8.25 percent of the people speak Mandarin in the village.
C. About 16. 5 per cent of the people speak Mandarin in the village.
D. Nearly all the Mandarin-speaking people are from Asia in the village.
78. Which of the following problems is NOT mentioned in the text?
A. Poverty.        B. Education.      C. Environment.    D. Marriage.
79. The underlined part “have access to” (in Para. 4) means_____.
A. use       B. buy        C. produce         D. try
80. The last sentence in the text implies that most of the people long for _____.
A. a peaceful world            B. good education
C. better health care          D. a life without anxiety    

Every pet owner loves his pet. There is no argument here.
　　But when we asked our readers whether they would clone （克隆， 复制）their beloved animals, the responses（反应） were split almost down the middle. Of the 228 readers who answered it, 108 would clone, 111 would not and nine weighed each side without offering an opinion.
　　Clearly, from readers’ response, this is an issue that reaches deeply into both the joy and final sadness of owning a pet. It speaks, as well, to people’s widely differing expectations over the developing scientific procedure.
　　Most of the respondents who favored the idea strongly believed it would produce at least a close copy of the original; many felt the process would actually return an exact copy. Those on the other side, however, held little hope a clone could never truly recreate a pet, many simply didn’t wish to go against the natural law of life and death.
　　Both sides expressed equal love for their animals. More than a few respondents owned “the best dog/cat in the world”. They thought of their pets as their “best friend”, “a member of the family,”“the light of my life.” They told moving stories of pets’ heroism, intelligence and selfless devotion.
　　Then the loss is so disturbing---and the cloning so attractive. “People become very close to their animals, and the loss can be just as hard to bear as when a friend or family member dies,” says Gary Kowalski, author of Goodbye, Friend: Healing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has Ever Lost a Pet. “For me, cloning feels like an attempt to turn death away…It’s understandable. Death is always painful. It’s difficult to deal with. It’s hard to accept.”
　　But would cloning reduce the blow? This question seemed to be at the heart of this problem.
【小题1】So far as the cloning of pets is concerned, a recent survey shows that, of all pet owners, ____.

第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
My senior year ,I can’t believe it’s almost over .Now when I __36__ ,it was stressful ,but exciting ,the prom ,graduation ,and then of course ,college.
I started my college application process months before Christmas .My parents told me it would be __37__if I set up interviews and tours .But I was unmotivated .I wanted to go to college, but I didn’t want to deal with the  __38 __.
As the day flew by, my application lay on my desk just as I had __39__ them three months before.“You are wasting __40__time ,” my parents complained .Sweeping away the gathered  __41__ on the applications, I worked on them every Sunday __42__ I finished .Next came writing the essays .I had many ideas, but every school had different__43__. I changed them until I was pleased.  __44__,everything was underway. Now I had to wait. In March, I started receiving letters of rejections(拒绝),I began to think that I had set myself up for__45__ .I had a letter from Salem State College stating that they wanted to see my third quarter __46__ before they made their decision .Yes !At least someone wanted to __47__ me. The beginning of April, I received a letter from Keens State.I had been rejected. Those  __48__words :“We regret to inform you...”made me sit down and cry. I had  __49__all hope .Then I heard from Plymouth State. Not my first __50__,but...I had been accepted. Maybe if I get my grades __51__ ,I can transfer to another school ....
The college application progress __52__ me deeply. All my friends had dozens of schools to choose from, I guess my parents were __53__ .High school grades are extremely important to your __54__.If I could do it all over again, I would take it more __55__ .
36. A.hold back      B.look back    C.keep back    D.go back
37.A.smart        B.certain C.convenient   D.available
38.A.loneliness      B.subjects       C.stress   D.tests  
39.A. found       B. left        C. sent        D. chosen
40.A.busy          B. spare      C. changeable D.valuable
41.A.dust              B.ideas       C.work        D.troubles
42.A. before      B.unless    C. until       D. when
43.A.decision     B.standards     C.regulations  D.requirements
44.A.Suddenly       B.Finally     C.Generally    D.Fortunately
45.A.disappointment      B.achievements      C.discrimination     D.preparations
46.A.papers       B.plans       C.grades      D.exams
47.A.accept       B.respect     C.judge       D.consider
48.A.borrowed       B.cheering      C.heated      D.opening
49.A.ruined       B.gained     C.lost          D.seen
50.A.chance       B.choice     C.guess       D.success
51.A.up          B.out         C.on               D.over
52.A.hurt              B.beat        C.punished     D.frightened
53.A.strict         B.right       C.kind         D.upset
54.A.school history       B.present familyC.final exams D.future  plans
55.A.firmly       B.readily     C.seriously     D.willingly

If you’re a male and you’re reading this, congratulations! You’re a survivor. According to statistics，you’re more than twice as likely to die of skin cancer than a woman，and nine times more likely to die of AIDS. Assuming you make it to the end of your natural term，about 78 years for men in Australia，you’ll die on average five years before a woman.
There're many reasons for this--typically，men take more risks than women and are more likely to drink and smoke but perhaps more importantly, men don’t go to the doctor.
“Men aren't seeing doctors as often as they should，” says Dr. Gullotta.“This is particularly so
for the over-40s, when diseases tend to strike.  According to a recent survey, 95％of women aged between 15 and early 49s see a doctor once a year, compared to 70％of men in the same age group.
“A lot of men think they’re unbeatable，”Gullotta says．“They only come in when a friend drops dead on the golf course and they think, Geez, if it could happen to him …”
Then there’s the ostrich（鸵鸟）approach．“Some men are scared of what might be there and would rather not know,” says Dr. Ross Cartmill.
“Most men get their cars serviced more regularly than they service their bodies,” Cartmill says. He believes most diseases that commonly affect men could be addressed by preventive check-ups.
“Prevention is cheaper in the long run than having to treat the diseases．Besides, the final cost is far greater，it’s called premature death.”
64．Why does the author congratulate male readers at the beginning of the passage?
A．They can live longer than they expected．
B．They are sure to enjoy a longer and happier life.
C．They have lived long enough to read this article.
D．They are more likely to survive serious diseases now．
65．Which of the author’s statements is the most important reason that men die five years earlier on
average than women according to the passage?
A．Men drink and smoke much more than women.
B．Men don’t seek medical care as often as women.
C．Men are more likely to suffer from deadly diseases.
D．Men aren’t as cautious as women in face of danger.
66．Which of the following best completes the underlined sentence “Geez, if it could happen to him…” （in Para 4） ?
A．it could happen to me，too.
B．it would be a big misfortune.
C．I should avoid playing golf.
D．I should consider myself lucky.
67．What does Dr．Ross Cartmill mean by“the ostrich approach”（in Para 5）?
A．A casual attitude towards one’s health conditions.
B．A new treatment for certain psychological problems．
C．Refusal to get medical treatment for fear of the pain involved.
D．Unwillingness to find out about one’s disease because of fear.

The first people who gave names to hurricanes were those who knew them best — the people of Puerto Rico. The small island of Puerto Rico is in the West Indies, off the coast of Florida. This is where all the hurricanes begin that strike the east coast of the United States. Often they pass near Puerto Rico or cross it on their way north. The people of Puerto Rico expect some of these unwelcome visitors every year. Each one is named after the Saint’s Day on which it arrives. Two of the most destructive storms were the Santo Ana in 1840 and the San Ciriaco in 1899.
Giving girls’ names to hurricanes is a fairly new idea. It all began with a story called “Storm”, written by George Stewart in 1941. In it a weatherman amused himself by naming storms after girls he knew. He named one Maria. The story describes how she Maria grew and developed, and how she changed the lives of people when she struck the United States.
Weathermen of the U.S. Army and Navy used the same system during World WarⅡ. They were studying weather conditions over the Pacific Ocean. One of their duties was to warn American ships and planes when a storm was coming. Whenever they spotted one, they gave it a girl’s name. The first one of the year was given a name beginning with [A]. The second one got a name beginning with [B]. They used all the letters from A to W, and still the storms kept coming. They had to use three lists from A to W to have enough names to go around. This was the first list of hurricane names that followed the alphabet. It served as a model for the system the Weather Bureau (局) introduced in 1942.
Before 1950 the Weather Bureau had no special system for naming hurricanes. When a hurricane was born down in the West Indies, the Weather Bureau simply collected information about it. It reported how fast the storm was moving and where it would go next. Weather reports warned people in the path of the hurricane, so that they could do whatever was necessary to protect themselves.
This system worked out fine as long as weather reports talked about only one hurricane at a time. But one week in September 1950 there were three hurricanes at the same time. The things began to get confused. Some people got the hurricanes mixed up and didn’t know which was which. This convinced the Weather Bureau that it needed a code for naming the storms in order to avoid confusion in the future.
1．Hurricanes were first named after the _________.
A. date on which they occurred                         
B. place where they began
C. amount of destruction they did                     
D. particular feature they have
2．The practice of giving girls’ names to hurricanes was started by _________.
A. a radio operator        B. an author                  C. a sailor                     D. local people
3．The purpose for which weathermen of the army and navy began using girls’ names for hurricanes was _________.
A. to keep information from the enemy
B. to follow the standard method of the United States
C. not given in the article
D. to remember a certain girl
4．The Weather Bureau began naming hurricanes because it would help them _________.
A. collect information more rapidly                  
B. warn people more efficiently
C. make use of military (军事的) records          
D. remember them