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    WILD WEATHERMAN

    Name: Sam Champion

    Hot job: TV Weatherman

    Where: ABC-TV, New York City

    When you were a child, did you plan to forecast wind, rain, and snow on TV?

    I wanted to be a foreign journalist. I took courses in weather science at Eastern Kentucky University, but I majored in broadcasting news.

    How did you finally become a weatherman?

    My first job in the early 1980s was at the local TV station in Paducah, Kentucky. I did everything from turning on the lights in the morning to writing and delivering morning news. I put together weather forecasts, and became interested in them.

    Back then, how did you forecast weather?

    Independent companies collected computer information that showed, for example, how a single weather system might split into snow or snow mixed with rain. The information was often opposite and the job of a weatherman was to study the information and make the best educated guess about the storm.

    Has weather forecasting changed much with new technology?

    Advanced computers, satellites, and Doppler radar (sound waves used to track storms) have made forecasting more exact. But we still know very little about how weather is shaped. So far, we just have theories.

    Any advice for children who'd like to become weather scientists?

    To me, weather is the most exciting field in the world. There are still so many more questions about weather than answers. After all, if we can't foresee floods or hurricanes, how safe a society are we? Weather forecasting is wide open for scientists who love to solve puzzling problems. The next generation of meteorologists (weather scientists) will unlock many of Earth's weather secrets. So get a general knowledge of Earth science, and study meteorology in college.

    Thanks, Sam.

    Judging from the writing style, the text is _________.

    A．a diary               B．an interview  

    C．a news story           D．an announcement

    As a child, ABC-TV's Sam Champion wanted to be a____________.

       A. space scientist          B．weatherman 

    C. news reporter           D．meteorologist

    Present weather forecasting technology___________.

    A．has made weather report more exact than ever

    　B．is still not perfect

    　C．hasn't changed much in the last 50 years

    　D．both A and B

    The study of weather science is called____________.

    A．meteorology   B．forecasting   C．geography   D．Earth science

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    　　Reading Comprehension

    　　The development of the English language falls into three periods. Old English lasted from about A. D. 450, when the first German people began to settle in England, until about 1100. Middle English extended from about 1100 to about 1475. And Modern English began about 1475 and has lasted to the present time. Of course the breaks were not as sudden and exact as these dates suggest. There has never been a year when the language was not changing, or a time when it was spoken without any differences between regions (地区) . However, the characters of the three periods are so different that a person who knows both Old and Modern English well will find a great deal of difficulty reading some of the Middle English writings without further study in the important points of the language.

    1．Shakespeare produced his famous plays during the late 1500s and early 1600s ; thus we can say that he wrote in ________ .

    [　　]

    A．Old English

    B．Middle English

    C．Early Middle English

    D．Modern English

    2．A person who knows Old English ________ .

    [　　]

    A．would probably have little difficulty learning old German

    B．would want to learn Modern English

    C．would have no difficulty learning Middle English

    D．would have difficulty learning other languages

    3．The author would advise a person learning English for the first time ________ .

    [　　]

    A．to study the history of the English language

    B．to realize that English is very difficult

    C．to remember that English will be different as time goes on

    D．to appreciate that English is spoken everywhere

    4．Old English ________.

    [　　]

    A．lasted for 450 years

    B．is still spoken in some areas of Britain

    C．came into being because of German influence(影响)

    D．had an unusual system (系统) of writing

    5．The English language ________ .

    [　　]

    A．has stayed about the same for the last 500 years

    B．should be studied by everyone

    C．is a mixture of French and German

    D．is the oldest language in Europe

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    　　This is the VOA Special English News Report．

    　　Single-handed

    　　Zhou Yang, 18, China

    　　Against three strong Republic of Korea competitors, Zhou single-handed took the 1,500-meter short speed skating gold to become Chinas' youngest winter Olympics gold medallist．According to coach Li Yan, Zhou, who is usually a gentle girl, took some risks and skated fiercely to take the gold．This is the third gold the Chinese have won at the Vancouver Olympics．

    　　Unobtrusive

    　　Liu Xiang, 26, China

    　　The Olympic gold medallist said on Friday that he's not the same old him, after setting his worst record in years-8.08 seconds for 60-meter hurdles．Liu said he still had some way to go before he's back to his best．Many fans have been expecting his taking-off in the 2010 Doha, but Liu said unobtrusively“Robles is still the best in the 60-meter and 110-meter hurdles．I'm no match now”．He added the performances of Terrence Trammell(US)and Robles would be the highlight of the Doha meet．

    　　Coveted

    　　Michael Jackson, 1958-2009, US

    　　Thanks to a whopping(庞大的)＄ 350,000 bid, Michael Jackson's rhinestone-encrusted(镶满人造钻石的)glove has gone to a Macao company．Jackson wore the sparking glove when he did his first“moonwalk”dance in 1983, so it was a really coveted piece of equipment．The pre-auction estimate put its value at ＄ 40, 000-60,000, but that wasn't even close．The glove and nine other items from the auction will be on display in a Macao hotel．

    (1)

    From the first news we can learn that Zhou Yang ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    likes taking chances in the competitions．

    B．

    won three gold medals at the Olympics．

    C．

    is not a gentle but a fleece girl

    D．

    is a hard working and strong minded girl

    (2)

    From the above news we can infer Liu Xiang ________

    [　　]

    A．

    is not popular any more with fans

    B．

    is still out of condition at present

    C．

    is feeling discouraged and depressed

    D．

    is sure of the highlight of the Doha meet

    (3)

    The underlined part“but that wasn't even close”probably means ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    the pre-auction estimate may be totally wrong

    B．

    the actual price may be far higher than the estimate

    C．

    the actual price may be far lower than the estimate

    D．

    the pre-auction estimate is probably correct

    (4)

    Where can we probably learn the passage?

    [　　]

    A．

    Broadcast

    B．

    Announcement

    C．

    Advertisement

    D．

    Newspaper

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    If he _________, don’t interrupt him．

    [　　]
    A．

    still works

    B．

    is still working

    C．

    still had been working

    D．

    will still be working

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    　　A single letter written by Albert Einstein was sold for more than ＄400,000．But could an e-mail printout or an electronic file reach similar heights?That's the question facing those who deal in the literary artifacts(人工制品)of public figures, as they struggle to work out how to do business in the electronic world where information can be copied and spread out more easily than ever before．

    　　“Booksellers, collectors and libraries are already trading in digital objects,”Joan Winterkorn, a researcher told people．When Emory University Library bought author Salman Rushdie's archives(档案)in 2006, it received a desktop computer, three laptops, a hard drive and a smart phone along with his paper files．And the writer John Updike, who died last month, started using computers in the 1980s, Winterkorn pointed out, so his“papers”will include a big store of electronic documents．

    　　So far, however, digital archives have been traded as just a small part of a larger, mainly paper-based archive．Indeed, no one is quite sure how much the digital documents of a historical figure are worth．

    　　“I don't feel the same way about the printout of an e-mail as I do a letter,”said Gabriel Heaton, a literary manuscript specialist, adding that more tangible(有形的)digital objects were easier for auctioneers(拍卖商)to price and sell．“What about a laptop?For example, the one used by J．K．Rowling to write Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in an Edinburgh café has real value,”he said．“Because she used it．”Even if the hard drive had been cloned by a library, the artifact would still be valuable．

    　　Gordon Bell, from Microsoft Research, suggested that prices will actually fall to almost nothing．“Once it's been copied and spread out, the value is gone．It's just a piece of memory．”

    (1)

    What is the purpose of the example mentioned in Paragraph 1?

    [　　]

    A．

    To introduce the topic of the passage．

    B．

    To show that some written letters are of great value．

    C．

    To get readers interested in electronic documents．

    D．

    To tell us to pay attention to public figures' artifacts．

    (2)

    According to the text, the trade in digital archives ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    has been well developed

    B．

    is still in its early stage

    C．

    is enjoying a period of prosperity(繁荣)

    D．

    is developing very rapidly

    (3)

    The underlined part in Paragraph 4 implies that ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    the printout of an e-mail has no value to keep

    B．

    the auctioneers like to sell tangible digital objects

    C．

    the printout of an e-mail is difficult to price

    D．

    Gabriel Heaton likes to keep famous letters

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