59. From the passage, on an adventure trip, people ______.

A. may not spend much time on sightseeing

B. won’t meet some difficulties or hardships

C. can’t enjoy them

D. can’t learn something

58. Which of the following is a way to save online time?

A. People seldom use capital letters or punctuation marks.

　 B. Many people draw pictures.

　 C. People only use the mouse instead of the keyboard.

D. People never use the "shift" key.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　C

Adventure Vacations

People like different kinds of vacations. Some go camping. They swim, fish, cook over a fire and sleep outside. Others like to stay at a hotel in an exciting city. They go shopping all day and go dancing all night. Or maybe they go sightseeing to places such as Disneyland, the Tai Mahan or the Louver.

Some people are bored with sightseeing trips. They don’t want to be “tourists”. They want to have an adventure--a surprising and exciting trip. They want to learn something and maybe help people too. How can they do this? Some travel companies and environmental groups are planning special adventures. Sometimes these trips are difficult and full of hardships, but they’re a lot of fun. One organization, Earth watch, sends small groups of volunteers to different parts of the world. Some volunteers spend two weeks and study the environment. Others work with animals. Others learn about people of the past.

Would you like an adventure in the Far North? A team of volunteers is leaving from Mormons, Russia. The leader of this trip is a professor from Alaska. He’s worried about chemicals from factories. He and the volunteers will study this pollution in the environment. If you like exercise and cold weather, this is a good trip for you. Volunteers need ski sixteen kilometers every day.

Do you enjoy ocean animals? You can spend two to four weeks in Hawaii. There, you can teach language to dolphins. Dolphins can follow orders such as “Bring me the large ball.” They also understand opposites. How much more can they understand? It will be exciting to learn about these intelligent animals. Another study trip goes to Washington State and follows orcas. We call orcas “killer Whale”, but they’re really dolphins-the largest kind of dolphin. This beautiful animal travels together in family groups. They move through the ocean with their mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers. Ocean pollution is chasing their lives. Earth watch is studying how this happens.

Are you interested in history? Then Greece is the place for your adventure. Thirty-five hundred years ago a volcano exploded there, on Santorum. This explosion was more terrible than Karate or Mount Saint Helens. But today we know a lot about the way of life of the people from that time. There are houses, kitchens, and paintings as interesting as those in Pompeii. Today teams of volunteers are learning more about people from the past.

Do you want a very different vacation? Do you want to travel far, work hard and learn a lot? Then an Earth watch vacation is for you.

57. If you get 17/F/NY as an answer to your A/S/L, it means_________.

A. the people on the other end is 17 from New York and he is fine

B. you are talking to a girl who is 17 and lives in New York

C. you are talking to 17 girls who are from New York

D. the people you are talking to is a 17-foot tall New York girl

56. The sentence “There's neither time nor space for explanations” means that ________.

A. people should use words properly

B. people should know what time it is when they are talking

C. people online have to express themselves in a simple way

D. people should communicate in a funny way

55. When people are online, they talk by _______.

A. using body language

B. drawing some strange pictures

C. making phone calls

D. making use of an especially short form of English

54. The best title for the passage is "________ ".

　 　A. Making a Film　 　　B. Actors and Actresses　 　　C. A Director　 　　D. Writing the Story

　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　　　　B

If you've been joining in chat room conversations, or trading e-mail with net pals(网友), you have become one of the millions who write in a special, short form of English.

Throughout the world, every night children and their elders are "talking" online ─ many of them are talking at the same time.

It's fast: trying talking to six people once. It's convenient: three or four words per exchange. It takes cleverness, concentration and quick fingers.

And it requires very simple language. There's neither time nor space for explanations. Why waste valuable time telling six friends you have to leave for a moment to take care of your little brother when BRB (=be right back) will do?

Want to enter a conversation? Just type PMFJI (=pardon me for jumping in).

Interested in whom you're talking to? Type A/S/L, the common request to know your pal's age, sex and location. You may get 15/M/NY as a reply from your pal.

If something makes you laugh, say you're OTF (=on the floor), or LOL (=laughing out loud), or join the two into ROTFL (=rolling on the floor laughing).

And when it's time to get back to work or go to bed, you type GTG (=got to go) or TTYL (=talk to you later).

People want to write as fast as possible, and they want to get their ideas across as quickly as they can. Capital letters are left in the dust, except when expressing feeling, as it takes more time to hold down the "shift" key and use capitals. Punctuation(标点) is going too.

53. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

　 　A. Writing the story for the film is a part of making a film.

　 　B. The indoor stages in the film studio are very big.

　 　C. Shooting the film often takes many months.

　 　D. All of the people in film making are actors and actresses.

52. The director of a film ________ .

　 　A. says how each scene should be filmed

　 　B. tells the actors and actresses how they should act

　 　C. is the most important person in a film studio

　 　D. all the above

51. Making a film is ________ .

　 　A. very easy　　 　　B. very difficult　　 　C. quite interesting　 　D. quite funny

42. A. have 　　　　　 　　B. own 　　　　　　　　　 　C. feed　　　　 　　 D. empty

SECTION C　 4 points

Directions: Complete the following passage by using ONE word that best fits the context.

Howard carter is one of the most famous explorers the world has ever known. He was bright and 　43　 about the world outside his hometown when he was very young.

　 　　44　 the 1920s, he had become an explorer, 　45 　for the tombs of the Egyptian kings. In

1922, Howard Carter made his most amazing 　46 　of all, in the Valley of the Kings, in Egypt,

where he found the tomb of King Tutankhamun.

　　　47 　, not long after the tomb had been opened, people in Carter’s team began to fall ill and die strangely. Within seven years, 21 people who had 　48 　to do with the opening of the tomb died.

　 Some people say the deaths were just 　49　 . Others believe that they were the 　50 　of the mummy’s curse. However, still others believe that there is a scientific explanation, because inside the tombs there are many viruses.　　　　

PART THREE　 READING COMPREHENSION　 24 points

SECTION A

Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A,B,C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　A

Making a film takes a long time and is very hard work. Writing the story for the film may take many weeks. Shooting (拍摄) the film often takes at least six months. Actors and cameramen work from very early in the morning until late at night. Each scene has to be acted and re-acted, filmed and re-filmed, until it is just fight. Sometimes the same scene has to be acted many times.

　　 The film studio is like a large factory, and the indoor stages are very big indeed. Scenery of all kinds is made in the studio. Churches, houses, and forests are all built of wood and cardboard. Several hundred people work together to make one film. Some of these people are the actors and actresses. The director of the film, however, is the most important person in a film studio. He decides how the scenes should be filmed and how the actors should act.

　　 Most people go to see a film because they know the film stars are in it. Sometimes the film may be very poor. It is best to choose a film made by a good director. Some famous directors make their films very real; people feel that they themselves are among the people in the films.