There are records of fingerprints taken many centuries ago. The ancient Babylonians pressed the tips of their fingerprints into clay to record business trade. The Chinese used ink-on-paper finger impressions for business. However, fingerprinting wasn't used as a method for identifying criminals until the 19th century．
In 1858, Sir William Herschel was working as an official of the Hooghly district in Jungipoor, India．In order to reduce fraud（诈骗）, he had people living in the district record their fingerprints when signing business documents. A few years later, Scottish doctor Henry Faulds was working in Japan when he discovered fingerprints left by artists on ancient pieces of clay．This finding inspired him to begin investigating fingerprints．In 1880, Faulds wrote to his cousin, the famous naturalist Charles Darwin, and asked for help with developing a fingerprint classification system．Darwin refused, but sent the letter to his cousin, Sir Francis Gallon, who was an eugenicist (优生学家). Gallon began collecting fingerprints and eventually gathered some 8, 000 different samples to analyze. In 1892, he published a book called "Fingerprints", in which he outlined a fingerprint classification system—the first existence．
Around the same time, Juan Vucetich, a police officer in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was developing his own version of a fingerprinting system．In 1892, Vucetich was called in to assist with the investigation of the two boys murdered in Necoche, a village near Buenos Aires. Their mother, Francisca Rojas, accused a neighbour named Velasquez. But when Vucetich compared the fingerprints found at the murder scene to those of both Velasquez and Rojas, they matched Rojas' exactly．She admitted her crime. This was the first time fingerprints had been used in a criminal investigation.Vucetich called his system comparative dactyloscopy（指纹鉴定法）. It's still used in many Spanish-speaking countries．
Sir Edward Henry, in charge of the Metropolitan Police of London, soon became interested in using fingerprints to catch criminals. In 1896, he added to Gallon's technique, creating his own classification system, the Henry Classification System. It is the primary method of fingerprint classification throughout most of the world．
【小题1】Herschel had people record their fingerprints so as to_____．

A．develop a fingerprinting system	B．prevent illegal business
C．put them on pieces of clay	D．collect and study fingerprints

【小题2】Who first came up with the idea of creating a fingerprint classification system?

A．Herschel．

B．Faulds．

C．Gallon．

D．Darwin．

【小题3】The underlined word "they" in Paragraph 3 probably refers to "_____"．

A．the fingerprints

B．the two boys

C．the crimes

D．the police officers

【小题4】We can learn from the text that _____．

A．Faulds collected many fingerprints while in Japan

B．Henry's classification system is based on Gallon's

C．Darwin showed great interest in studying fingerprints

D．Vucetich's fingerprinting system is still used all over the world

【小题5】What is the text mainly about?

A．Different uses of fingerprints．

B．The history of fingerprinting．

C．Countries that first used fingerprints．

D．The way to collect and analyze fingerprints．

I've spent most of my career as a traveling salesman, and so I know that   36 is an occupational disease．But one year, my   37  gave me the cure for my homesickness．

It had black bright eyes, a red bow tie and orange feet—a stuffed penguin（企鹅）that   38  about five inches tall．Attached to its left wing   39  a little sign with the hand-painted declaration "I Love My Dad! "．I   40  the penguin at once on my table．

On my next trip, I put the penguin in my suitcase．That night when I   41__   home, my daughter Jeanine was   42  because the penguin had disappeared．"Honey, he's here with me, " I explained, "I brought him   43  ."

  44 , the penguin came with me—as necessary as my briefcase．And we   __45  along the way．In Albuquerque, I checked into a   46 , dropped my bag and ran to a meeting．When I returned, the maid had   47  the bed and stood the penguin on the pillow．

One night, I discovered the penguin   48 , and after a mad phone call, I learned I' d   49  it in my previous hotel room,   50  it had been rescued by a maid．I  __51  a hundred miles to get it, and when I arrived at midnight, the penguin was waiting at the front desk．In the hotel lobby（大厅）, other tired business travelers were   __52   at the reunion of my penguin and me---I think with a bit of   53  ．

Jeanine is in college now, and I don't travel   54  . The penguin sits on my table, a reminder that love is a wonderful traveling companion．All those years on   55 , it was the one thing I never left home without．

1.                A．cold           B．hunger         C．loneliness D．fever

 

2.                A．wife           B．daughter        C．friend    D．mother

 

3.                A．stood          B．lay             C．jumped   D．climbed

 

4.                A．wrote          B．turned         C．was  D．had

 

5.                A．threw          B．lost            C．ordered  D．placed

 

6.                A．drove          B．called          C．wrote    D．went

 

7.                A．upset          B．happy          C．glad D．excited

 

8.                A．up            B．off             C．along D．down

 

9.                A．From now on    B．In the future     C．In future D．From then on

 

10.               A．had friends      B．had friend      C．made friends   D．made friend

 

11.               A．school         B．hotel          C．shop  D．supermarket

 

12.               A．given          B．turned         C．made     D．carried

 

13.               A．sleeping        B．going          C．living D．missing

 

14.               A．forgot          B．left            C．ordered   D．sent

 

15.               A．there          B．when          C．where D．how

 

16.               A．ran            B．walked         C．hurried   D．drove

 

17.               A．surprised       B．frightened      C．looked    D．laughed

 

18.               A．anger          B．admiration      C．sadness   D．illness

 

19.               A．as many        B．as seldom       C．so few D．as much

 

20.               A．the hotel       B．the meeting     C．the trip    D．the house

 

 

Seated on a rock, she could be waiting for a bus. But if so, she could be in for a terribly long wait.

A photo of what looks remarkably like a female figure with her arm outstretched was among several taken on Mars and sent back to Earth by NASA’s Mars explorer Spirit, Britain’s Daily Mail reported yesterday. Though no official confirmation has come from NASA on whether the figure is an alien or an optical illusion（视错觉）caused by landscape on Mars, it has set the Internet an excited discussion whether there really is life on Mars.

As one enthusiast put it on the newspaper’s website: “These pictures are amazing. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw what appears to be a naked alien running around on Mars.” Another wrote: “If you show me another rock in another photo from Mars that naturally looks like that, I will reconsider.” A third contributor, who came closer to the majority’s view, said: “Ah, the human eye can be tricked so easily.”

The news of the mystery woman on Mars came just days after a team of French scientists claimed to have discovered a proof that Mars has high dense clouds of dry ice, which float quickly across its orange sky, Indian newspaper Hindustan Times reported．

Using data obtained by OMEGA spectrometer on board European Space Agency’s Mars Express, the team found the existence of ice clouds which sometimes become so dense（密集）that they throw quite dark shadows on the dusty surface of the planet.

1. What does “she” in the first paragraph refer to?

   A．an unknown woman            B．a mystery alien

   C．an optical illusion                 D．a lady-shaped image

2. According to the passage, what’s the majority’s view of the female-shaped photo?

   A．They think it must be a photo a mystery woman on Mars.

B．They think it couldn’t be a photo from a mystery woman on Mars.

   C．They are not sure that it is a photo from a mystery woman on Mars.

D．They don’t express their opinions on the female-shaped photo.

3. From the passage, we can know that     .

   A．there must be water existing on Mars.       B．there must be a certain of life on Mars.

   C．there is low dense clouds of dry ice on Mars.  D．the surface of Mars is orange and rocky.

4. The first paragraph mainly serves to.

   A．attract readers’ attention

   B．describe a mystery woman

   C．introduce the mystery photo

   D．prove the discovery of life on Mars

    As I drove my blue Buick into the garage. I saw that a yellow Oldsmobile was   21   too close to my space. I had to drive back and forth to get my car into the   22   space. That left   23    enough room to open the door. Then one day I arrived home   24  , and just as I turned off the engine, the yellow Oldsmobile entered its space － too close to my car,   25  . At last I had a chance to meet the driver. My patience had   26   and I shouted at her, “Can’t you see you’re not   27   me enough space” Park father over.” Banging(猛推) open her door into  28 ,the driver shouted back: “Make me!”   29   this she stepped out of the garage. Still, each time she got home first, she parked too close to my   30  . Then one day, I thought, “What can I do?” I soon found   31  . The next day the woman   32   a note on her windshield(挡风玻璃):

Dear Yellow Oldsmobile,

I’m sorry mistress(女主人) shouted at yours the other day. She’s been sorry about it. I know it because she doesn’t sing anymore while   33  . It wasn’t like her to scream   34  . Fact is, she’d just got bad news and was taking it out on you two. I   35   you and your mistress will   36   her.

                                                    Your neighbor,

                                                   Blue Buick

When I went to the   37   the next morning, the Oldsmobile was gone, but there was a note on my windshield:

Dear Blue Buick,

My mistress is sorry, too. She parked so   38   because she just learned to drive. We will park much farther over after this. I’m glad we can be   39   now.

                                                 Your neighbor,

                                                 Yellow Oldsmobile

After that, whenever Blue Buick   40   Yellow Oldsmobile on the road, their drivers waved cheerfully and smiled.

21．A．driven                       B．parked               C．stopped                     D．stayed

22．A．complete          B．close            C．narrow                     D．fixed

23．A．quite                        B．nearly           C．seldom                     D．hardly

24．A．hurriedly                   B．first          C．finally                          D．timely

25．A．as usual            B．as planned      C．as well                 D．as yet

26．A．run into                     B．run about        C．run out                 D．run off

27．A．keeping                     B．saving                        C．offering       D．leaving

28．A．mine                B．hers             C．itself                  D．ours

29．A．For                          B．With               C．From                       D．Upon

30．A．room                        B．area             C．front                   D．side

31．A．an instruction             B．a result        C．an answer               D．a chance

32．A．put                         B．wrote                C．sent                D．discovered

33．A．working           B．driving            C．returning             D．cooking

34．A．on end                      B．so long            C．like that             D．any more

35．A．hope                        B．know                  C．suppose             D．suggest

36．A．comfort                     B．help                    C．forgive             D．please

37．A．office                       B．flat                     C．place                D．garage

38．A．crazily                     B．eagerly       C．noisily               D．early

39．A．neighbors                  B．friends            C．drivers               D．writers

40．A．followed                   B．passed            C．found                      D．greeted