第1部分:词汇选项(第1~15题,每题1分,共15分)
下面每个句子中均有1个词或短语划有底横线,请为每处划线部分确定1个意义最为接近的选项。
1. I grabbed his arm and made him turn to look at me.
A. seized B. threw
C. broke D. stretched
2. Traffic reaches its rush hour between 8:00 and 9:00 in the morning.
A. border B. goal
C. peak D. level
3. It seemed incredible that he had been there a week already.
A. right B. obvious
C. unbelievable D. unclear
4. I tried to detach myself from the reality of these terrible events.
A. bring B. separate
C. put D. set
5. We found shelter from the rain under the trees.
A. defense B. standing
C. protection D. room
6. This was an unexceptionally brutal attack.
A. open B. cruel
C. sudden D. direct
7. She gets aggressive when she is drunk.
A. worried B. sleepy
C. offensive D. anxious
8. We have to change the public's perception that money is everything.
A. sight B. belief
C. interest D. pressure
9. The odd thing was that he didn't recognize me.
A. real B. whole
C. strange D. same
10. He was tempted by the high salary offered by the company.
A. taught B. kept
C. attracted D. changed
11. That performance was pretty impressive.
A. completely B. very
C. beautifully D. equally
12. The frame needs to be strong enough to support the engine.
A. bottom B. surface
C. top D. structure
13. She came across three children sleeping under a bridge.
A. passed by B. took a notice of
C. woke up D. found by chance
14. "There is no other choice," she said in a harsh voice.
A. firm B. soft
C. deep D. unkind
15. I have little information as regards her fitness for the post.
A. about B. at
C. with D. from
第2部分:阅读判断(第16~22题,每题1分,共7分)
下面的短文后列出了7个句子,请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断:如果该句提供的是正确信息,请选择A;如果该句提供的是错误信息,请选择B;如果该句的信息文中没有提及,请选择C。
Wide World of Robots
Engineers who build and program robots have fascinating jobs. These researchers tinker(修补) with machines in the lab and write computer software to control these devices. "They're the best toys out there," says Howie Choset at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Choset is a roboticist, a person who designs, builds or programs robots.
When Choset was a kid, he was interested in anything that moved - cars, trains, animals. He put motors on Tinkertoy cars to make them move. Later, in high school, he built mobile robots similar to small cars.
Hoping to continue working on robots, he studied computer science in college. But when he got to graduate school at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Choset's labmates were working on something even cooler than remotely controlled cars: robotic snakes. Some robots can move only forward, backward, left and right. But snakes can twist(扭曲) in many directions and travel over a lot of different types of terrain(地形). "Snakes are far more interesting than the cars," Choset concluded.
After he started working at Carnegie Mellon, Choset and his colleagues there began developing their own snake robots. Choset's team programmed robots to perform the same movements as real snakes, such as sliding and inching forward. The robots also moved in ways that snakes usually don't, such as rolling. Choset's snake robots could crawl(爬行) through the grass, swim in a pond and even climb a flagpole.
But Choset wondered if his snakes might be useful for medicine as well. For some heart surgeries, the doctor has to open a patient's chest, cutting through the breastbone. Recovering from these surgeries can be very painful. What if the doctor could perform the oparation by instead making a small hole in the body and sending in a thin robotic snake?
Choset teamed up with Marco Zenati, a heart surgeon now at Harvard Medical School, to investigate the idea. Zenati practiced using the robot on a plastic model of the chest and then tested the robot in pigs.
A company called Medrobotics in Boston is now adapting the technology for surgeries on people.
Even after 15 years of working with his team's creations, "I still don't get bored of watching the motion of my robots," Choset says.
16. Choset began to build robots in high school.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
17. Snake robots could move in only four directions.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
18. Choset didn't begin developing his own snake robots until he started working at Carnegie Mellon.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
19. Choset's snake robots could make more movements than the ones others developed.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
20. The application of a thin robotic snake makes heart surgeries less time-consuming.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
21. Zenati tested the robot on people after using it in pigs.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
22. The robotic technology for surgeries on people has brought a handsome profit to Medrobotics.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
第3部分:概括大意与完成句子(第23~30题,每题1分,共8分)
下面的短文后有2项测试任务:(1)第23~26题要求从所给的6个选项中为第2~5段每段选择1个最佳标题;(2)第27~30题要求从所给的6个选项中为每个句子确定1个最佳选项。
Ecosystem
1 The word "ecosystem" is short for ecological (生态的) system. An ecosystem is where living creatures expand within a given area. You can say that an ecosystem is the natural environment where biological organisms (生物) such as plants, animals and humans co-exist in this world. So naturally that includes you and me. Yes, we are all members of an ecosystem!
2 There are different kinds of ecosystems depending on the type of surface or environment. Most are naturally made such as the ocean or lake and the desert or rainforest. Some are man-made or artificial to encourage co-habitation (兴居) between living and non-living things in a monitored environment, such as a zoo or garden.
3 Plants make up the biggest group of biological creatures within an ecosystem, and that's because they are the natural food producers for everyone. Plants raised in the earth need air and collect sunlight to help them grow. When they grow, the plants and its fruits or flowers eventually become a source of food to animals, microorganisms (微生物) and even humans, of course. Food is then converted to energy for the rest of us to function, and this happens in a never-ending cycle until the living creatures die and break up back in the earth.
4 Ecosystems are the basis of survival for all living things. We depend on plants and animals for food. In order for us to exist, we need to grow and care about other organisms. We also need to care for the non-living things within our environment like our air and water so we can continue living as a population. Since plants, animals and humans are all of various species (物种), we all play a role in maintaining the ecosystem.
5 To preserve our ecosystems, we should stop using too much energy, which happens when we consume more than our share of resources. Humans should not disturb the natural habitat (栖息地) of plants and animals, and allow them to grow healthily for the cycle to continue. Too many people in a habitat can mean displacement (搬迁): imagine being thrown out of your home because there is no more space for everyone. Worse, overpopulation can also ruin the environment and cause destruction of existing plants and animals.
23. Paragraph 2 _________
24. Paragraph 3 _________
25. Paragraph 4 _________
26. Paragraph 5 _________
A. What can we do to help protect ecosystems?
B. What are different types of ecosystems?
C. What is an ecosystem?
D. What destroys ecosystems?
E. How does an ecosystem work?
F. Why are ecosystems important?
27. In an ecosystem, plants, animals and humans live together in _________.
28. Plants are essential in an ecosystem because to other living creatures they are _________.
29. Plants, animals and humans are all effective in _________.
30. To protect our ecosystems we should not use more than _________.
A. our share of resources
B. a biological creature
C. a given area
D. the maintenance of the ecosystem
E. the source of food
F. various species