44. Educations say they watch many bright girls suddenly recoil in the face of head-to-head competition with boys.

A.　 盘旋　　　 B.　 退缩　　　 C.　 胜出　　　 D.　 反弹　

43. Boys think of school as purgatory on the way to a future of finding riches at sea; for girls, it’s their ticket out of school.

A.　 受罪　　　 B.　 关键　　 C.　 阻碍　　 D.　 帮助　

42. If and when these new measures are rolled out. They will be welcomed.

A.　 试验　　 B.　 推行　　　 C.　 滚出　　 D.　 起草　

41. This fishing village of 1,480 people is a bleak and lonely place, even in a country located at the top of the world.　

A.　 偏远的　　 B.　 平静的　 C.　 海边的　 D.　 荒凉的

40. Which of the following is the poorest in its performance of recycling ?

A.　 Lichfield

B.　 Daventry

C.　 Liverpoor

D.　 Isles of Scilly

Part B Meaning Guessing (5 items, 1 points for each item )

Directions : In this part of the test, there are five sentences taken from the above three passages. For each sentence there is an underlined word, which might be unfamiliar to you. You are required to choose its most appropriate Chinese equivalent from A,B,C and D. Blacken the letter corresponding to your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.

39. By 2006, the recycling rate in Britain will_______

A.　 rise to 42%

B.　 increase by 25%

C.　 increase by 8%

D.　 rise to 60%

38. The author’s attitude towards the local governments’ effort in the recycling problem sounds__________

A.　 satisfied

B.　 doubtful

C.　 critical

D.　 indifferent

37. The performance of the local authorities in Britain in waste recycling is __________

A.　 improving

B.　 perfect

C.　 different

D.　 satisfactory

36. From the passage, we can see that_____________　

A.　 most people in Britain are in favor of recycling

B.　 Britain will have the highest recycling rate in 2010

C.　 not many people in Britain have “kerbside collection”

D.　 the local authorities in Britain take recycling very seriously

35. Which of the following is the best title for this passage?

A.　 A Village in Iceland

B.　 Science Students in Sandgerdi

C.　 A Boys Cleverer Than Girls?

D.　 A Land Where Girls Rule in Math

TEXT C

　 Our eagerness for recycling is growing fast, but Britain’s 17 percent of household wasted recycled still trails behind rates of around 50 percent in the Netherlands, Austria and Germany. “ The key to good recycling rates is kerbside collection ,” says Georgina Bloomfield, from Friends of the Earth. “In the top European countries a wide range of waste is collected every weeek-glass , paper, cans, plastics and more.” Although two-thirds of Britain’s households now have kerbside collection of some sort, local government vary widely in the service they offer. Top-performing Livhfield and Daventry recycle more than 40 percent and make regular doorstep collections of waste, but bottom-of-the-league Isles of Scilly has no recycling collecting at all and Liverpool City Council Recycles just four percent.

　 What’s the British Government doing about it ? it says a 25 percent recycling rate is “achievable” by 2006, and yet local governments are required by law only to provide every household with a collection of two materials by 2010. Environment Elliot Morley said, “It’s up to authorities to increase recycling and this may involve solutions other than kerbside collection. But should they continue to make no commitment to improvement, the last measure could involve the secretary of state taking over the duty of the authority.

　 We could recycle more than 60 percent of our waste in the UK if we implemented best practices seen across Europe , such as wide-ranging kerbside collection. In Sweden, where 95 percent of metal cans are recycled, customers receive money back on returned cans. In Germany some 70 percent of soft drinks are sold in returnable bottles. In Iceland, a 10 percent tax on plastic carrier bags lead to a 90 percent reduction in use in just six month.

　 One of Britain’s biggest challenges is packaging waste –roughly half of our rubbish comes from supermarkets. In November the Government provided an £8 million fund to “stimulate new packaging design”, and invited individuals and companies to offer ideas . sounds good , doesn’t it? But other countries have already reduced over-packaging. If and when these new measures are rolled out, they will be welcomed. People in Britain really do want to do the right thing-according to an Environment Agency survey, 90 percent of us say we’d recycle if the governments made it easier. And in the end, we may have no choice. We cannot continue dumping millions of tons of waste into the ground. This is our chance to make a difference-because we can.