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  Once people called them “flying saucers”.Now they usually have a   1   name, UFOs-Unidentified Flying Objects.There are hundreds of   2   and some photographs of these spaceships from other worlds and the “  3  ” in them.

  On February 4th, 1977, fourteen boys at a school in   4   all saw a silver object, as big as a bus, with a red light on top.“We saw something come out of it.It had a helmet.We ran and told our   5   but when we came back it wasn’t there.”Afterwards, the teachers put the children into different rooms and asked each one to   6   a picture of the spaceship.All the drawings showed the same object.

  Pauline Coombs also lived in Wales.In April 1977 she was in her car with her children when she saw a light in the sky.she said, “It was in front of us.It was no bigger than a football and it was yellow.The object came nearer to the car and   7   us.The children began to cry.Near the farm where we lived, the car suddenly   8  .I jumped out with the children and we ran up the road.The thing still followed us.When I got in the house I was so   9   that I couldn’t speak.”

  One evening about two weeks after this, Pauline and Billy Coombs were at home.  10   they saw a man outside the window.He was more than two metres tall and dressed in silver-coloured clothes.On his head he wore a silver   11   with black glass at the front.

  “He came very near us, ”said Pauline.“Billy and I were so afraid that we couldn’t move.The television in the room was on but there was no   12  , only a lot of white lines.The man just watched us through the window and then   13  .We telephoned the police but I don’t think they believed us.”

  Some people say they have not only seen men from other worlds but also been inside a UFO.One of these is an English man, Horatio Penrose.Not long before   14   on 13th May 1954, he was in his car on the road between Derby and Burton, in England.

  “A bright light came along the road to me, ”he said.“I had to stop very suddenly and I hit my head on the window.I cannot remember very well what happened to me next but something   15   the car and put it on the side of the UFO.It was up in the air over us.He took me into a room where there was a bright light.There were five people in the room.They looked like   16   men and women, although they were smaller.I had a deep   17   on my head and a girl began to help me.She was pretty and had a very white face.She did not   18   but I understood her thinking and she answered my questions before I asked them.There was not much time for us to “talk” because I soon   19  .I woke up in my car.”

  Has anyone ever found an empty UFO? The governments of many countries do not like to talk about this, but scientists in Spitsbergen in Norway think that they found a UFO.They said, “We thought at first that it was a Russian plane but now we are sure that it is not.We have never seen the   20   of this object anywhere before.In fact, we have no idea at all what it is.”

(1)

[  ]

A.

different

B.

particular

C.

special

D.

usual

(2)

[  ]

A.

words

B.

mysteries

C.

stories

D.

reports

(3)

[  ]

A.

creatures

B.

animals

C.

men

D.

scientists

(4)

[  ]

A.

London

B.

Scotland

C.

Ireland

D.

Wales

(5)

[  ]

A.

parents

B.

teachers

C.

classmates

D.

friends

(6)

[  ]

A.

tell

B.

say

C.

draw

D.

describe

(7)

[  ]

A.

followed

B.

caught

C.

frightened

D.

observed

(8)

[  ]

A.

disappeared

B.

sped up

C.

broke

D.

stopped

(9)

[  ]

A.

excited

B.

afraid

C.

puzzled

D.

anxious

(10)

[  ]

A.

Luckily

B.

Happily

C.

Suddenly

D.

Immediately

(11)

[  ]

A.

hat

B.

suit

C.

helmet

D.

coat

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[  ]

A.

sound

B.

picture

C.

voice

D.

programme

(13)

[  ]

A.

came in

B.

went away

C.

flew away

D.

rushed away

(14)

[  ]

A.

noon

B.

midnight

C.

early morning

D.

late afternoon

(15)

[  ]

A.

jumped into

B.

broke up

C.

picked up

D.

pushed up

(16)

[  ]

A.

strong

B.

nice

C.

ordinary

D.

normal

(17)

[  ]

A.

ache

B.

cut

C.

hole

D.

wound

(18)

[  ]

A.

move

B.

talk

C.

shout

D.

stand

(19)

[  ]

A.

left it

B.

worked in

C.

went to sleep

D.

made friends with them

(20)

[  ]

A.

metal

B.

shape

C.

size

D.

light

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SECTION B(10%)

Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and the required words limit. Write your answers on your answer sheet.

Even bird brains can get to know an entire continent ----- but it takes them a year of migration to do so, suggests a Princeton research team.

   The scientists have shown that migrating adult sparrows can find their way to their winter nesting grounds even after being thrown off course by thousands of miles.

   The team first brought 30 sparrows to Princeton from northern Washington State, where the birds had been in the process of migrating southward from their summer breeding grounds in Alaska. Half the birds were juveniles(少年) of about three months in age that had never migrated before, while the other half were adults that had made the round trip to their wintering site in the south-western United States at least once.

   After the birds were released, they attempted to start their migration again but both age group grew disoriented(迷失方向) quickly.

   “All the birds scattered(分散) at first,” Wikelski said. “It was clear that they were turned around for a couple of days. But while the adults eventually realized they had to head southwest, the younger birds began flying straight southward again as though they were still in Washington.”

   “The adults,” said team member Richard Holland, “recovered their bearings because they possess something the younger birds do not, which is an internal map.”

   “These birds need two things to know where they are and migrate effectively: a ‘map’ and a ‘compass’,” said Holland, a postdoctoral research associate in Wikelski’s lab. “What we’ve found is that juveniles use their compass, but the adults also use their map.”

   Holland said, “The birds do not lose the compass as they age, but somehow develop the map, eventually applying both tools to keep on track during migratory flights. Scientists already have determined that the compass is based on the sun or the magnetic field, but where the map comes from remains a mystery----one that the team will be exploring in the coming years.”

81.Where do you think the 30 sparrows spent their summer? (No more than 2 words)

_______________________________________________________________________________82.What are the juveniles sparrows really lack of? (No more than 3 words)

_______________________________________________________________________________83.What are scientists still not sure about? (No more than 6 words)

_______________________________________________________________________________84.What is the main idea of the passage? (No more than 12 words)

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