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第1题

Almost exactly a year ago, in a small village in Northern India, Andrea Milliner was bitte

n on the leg by a dog. "It must have (1)_____ your nice white flesh", joked the doctor (2)_____ he dressed the wound. Andrea and her husband Nigel were determined not to let it (3)_____ their holiday, and thought no more (4)_____ the dog, which had meanwhile quietly disappeared (5)_____ the village.

"We didn't realize there was (6)_____ wrong with it," says Nigel. "It was such a small, (7)_____ dog that rabies didn't (8)_____ my mind". But, six weeks later,23-year-old Andrea was dead. The dog had been rabid. No one had thought it necessary to (9)_____ her anti-rabies treatment. When, back home in England, she began to show the classic (10)_____—unable to drink, catching her breath—her own doctor put it (11)_____ to hysteria. Even when she was (12)_____ into an ambulance, hallucinating, recoiling in (13)_____ at the sight of water, she was directed (14)_____ the nearest mental hospital.

But if her symptoms (15)_____ little attention in life, in death (16)_____ achieved a publicity close to hysteria. Cases like Andrea are (17)_____, but rabies is still one of the most feared diseases known to man. The disease is (18)_____ by a bite of a lick from an (19)_____ animal. It can, in very exceptional circumstances, be inhaled—two scientists died of it after (20)_____ bat dung in a cave in Texas.

A．fancied

B．flashed

C．flopped

D．gasped

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第2题

Bobby and his master, farmer John Gray, were familiar sights in Edinburgh. Every Wednesday

after a visit to market and exactly as the time-gun boomed one o'clock, the two would enter Traill's Dining Room for their midday meal, a frugal lunch for Gray, and a bun for Bobby.

Then in 1858, the schedule was interrupted. Farmer Gray died. Three days after the funeral exactly at one o'clock, Traill found him self looking into a pair of beseeching canine eyes. Bobby got his bun and disappeared. This was repeated for several days until Traill's curiosity got the better of him. He followed the small terrier as he left and raced to his master's grave. There he remained each day, fair or foul, despite the efforts of dog-loving townspeople to give him a new home. The graveyard caretaker, while sympathetic, was at first not so willing to let him in. But Bobby's devotion and fidelity were so great that the caretaker provided Bobby with a shelter close to the grave to protect him from bad weather.

Then, after nine years, Bobby was arrested as a vagrant because he had no license. The restaurant keeper appeared in court with Bob by mile was released by merciful justice. But just to make sure the law could not touch him. Lord Provost William Chambers paid Bobby's fee each year and presented him with a brass-plated collar inscribed "Grey friars' Bobby from The Lord Provost, 1876, License."

After that, Grey friars' Bobby was allowed to keep his lonely vigil undisturbed. He never varied his mealtime. Each day he left the graveyard as the gun roared one o'clock to pick up his bun and take it back to eat at his master's side. He must have been really hardy for he lived until 1872, having kept to his solitary post for fourteen long years. He was buried in Grey friars, of course, in a flower bed near John Gray's tombstone.

An appropriate title for the passage could be _______.

A．Traill's Dining Room

B．Farmer John Gray

C．Bobby the Faithful

D．Lord Provost William Chambers

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第3题

第二节完型填空阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D)中选出能填入相应空白处的最

第二节完型填空

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。

In September, in Britain, you may see a lot of birds 【B1】 on roofs and telegraph wires. These birds are swallows. They are 【B2】 together because, Very soon, they will be flying 【B3】 to much warmer lands, where they will find 【B4】 small flying insects on which they 【B5】 . There are no such insects 【B6】 in Britain during the winter, as it is 【B7】 cold for them.

The swallows settle, fly off, swoop, and 【B8】 again. This they do many times, for they are making short 【B9】 flights in order to be fit for the long journey 【B10】 them.

【B11】 of these migrating birds leave Britain in the autumn. They fly 【B12】 for hundreds of miles 【B13】 they reach the warm lands of Africa. But not all the birds get there, for many of them perish in the stormy weather they meet with 【B14】 .

In the spring of the following year they 【B15】 the long and tiring journey back to Britain. They return to the identical barn or tree in the 【B16】 district which they had left the 【B17】 autumn. How do these birds find their 【B18】 there and back over such vast distances？ Nobody knows exactly 【B19】 , but it has something to do 【B20】 winds and air currents.

【B1】

A．being perched

B．perching

C．being perching

D．be perched

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第4题

By any standard, money manager Malcolm Gissen has had a complicated relationship with risk

over the past couple of years. After losing 62 percent in 2008, the Encompass Fund, which Gissen co-manages, gained a staggering 137 percent last year, cementing its reputation as one of the more volatile funds in the industry. "Most mutual fund managers tend to invest for mediocre results. Their goal is to perform. in line with their benchmark," says Gissen, whose returns--for better or worsen-have been anything but mediocre.

Encompass is one of a small group of funds that have a "go-anywhere" mandate (meaning they can invest in essentially any type of security), and Gissen wields that power freely. Late last year, for instance, his fund had about 20 percent of its assets in gold-related investments. Despite all that, Gissen's attitude toward risk is surprisingly straightforward: "We don't like risk," he volunteers.

This, of course, begs the question: What exactly constitutes a risky portfolio？ "When people think about risk.., they think, 'What's going to be the next AIG or the next Enron？'" says Chris Konstantinos, a portfolio risk manager at Riverfront Investment Group, a Virginia-based advisory firm. "That's a really important risk, but it's not the entire side of the risk equation. It's just one piece. "

Lately, the market has shone a light on an entirely different type of risk, one that's far more paradoxical and difficult to grasp. "Sometimes the biggest risk you can have in your portfolio is not having enough risk," says Konstantinos. "And certainly since March of 2009, that's clearly been the case. "

Advocates of this philosophy point to two main scenarios. In one, a traditionally safe asset class falls off, pulling the rug out from underneath investors who were overexposed to it. That's what many analysts expect will happen to bond investors once interest rates start creeping up. In the other, a risky type of investment takes off, leaving those who don't own it behind in a cloud of dust. That's what occurred when consumer discretionary stocks surged during last year's rebound.

In both scenarios, the advantage goes to investors with portfolios that are traditionally seen as risky. The challenge, of course, is achieving the right balance. Many investors can't stomach the swings associated with funds like Gissen's, but there's middle ground to be found. "The right way to look at risk is to look at it from a portfolio construction perspective, which means that in a highly diversified portfolio, there's room for what's perceived as risky kinds of investments," says Konstantinos.

Most managers tend to invest portfolio that ______.

A．has the highest value

B．doesn't contain too much risk

C．is more risky than any others

D．can get more returns

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第5题

Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps【C1】______Sunday that he had【C2】______in "regrettable" behav

ior. and "demonstrated bad【C3】______" after a photo was published that appeared to【C4】______him smoking cannabis(大麻制品). A British newspaper, The News of the World, published the【C5】______allegedly showing the multiple Olympic gold medal-winner inhaling from a glass pipe which is gene rally used to【C6】______the drug. "I engaged in behavior. which was regrettable and demonstrated bad judgment," Phelps said in a【C7】______, "Im 23 years old, and【C8】______the successes I have had in the【C9】______, I acted in a youthful and【C10】______way, not in a manner that people have come to expect from me." "For this, I am sorry. I promise my fans and the public—it will not happen again." The US Olympic Committee【C11】______disappointment in the swimmer, who on January 22 was named the USOCs Sportsman of the Year for making Olympic history in Guangzhou by collecting the most【C12】______won by any athlete at a single Games, giving him a total of 14 golds. "We are disappointed in the behavior. recently【C13】______by Michael Phelps." Michael is a role model, and he is well【C14】______of the responsibilities and accountability that come with setting a【C15】______example for others,【C16】______young people. In this instance, regrettably, he failed to【C17】______those responsibilities, the USOC said. The photograph shows Phelps,【C18】______a white T-shirt and a baseball cap back to front,【C19】______the pipe—known as a bong—to his lips and apparently inhaling. The tabloid(小报)quoted a party goer as saying: "You could tell Michael had smoked before. He grabbed the bong and a lighter and knew exactly【C20】______to do."

【C1】

A．declared

B．realized

C．admitted

D．promised

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第6题

Wild and farm birds often get a flu virus. Yet they usually are able to carry the virus wi

thout getting sick.

In 1997 six people in Hong Kong died of a different kind of bird flu virus. It is called the h-five-n-one virus. The Hong Kong government quickly ordered the killing of all farm birds there. That stopped the spread of h-five-n-one to people in Hong Kong.

Yet the virus bad already spread to other parts of Asia. It was found in 16 countries between 2003 and 2006.

The h-five-n-one virus first appeared in Africa. This raised many concerns about the spread of the disease. Scientists do not know exactly how bird flu came to Africa. At first, they thought wild birds were to blame. Now, officials with the U. N. Food and Agriculture Organization believe the main cause is trade in farm birds.

The bird flu virus is found in the waste and liquids of infected birds. The virus spreads when healthy birds or people touch sick birds or nay infected (被感染了的) part of sick birds. Right now, the virus is not spreading among person to person. But the virus could change and start spreading among people. Health officials believe that it is even more possible now that bird flu has spread in Africa, and that is why international organizations are working so hard to stop its spread.

The best way to stop the spread of bird flu is to kill all the chickens in an area where bird flu has been discovered. More than 145 000 chickens have been killed in Nigeria since bird fin was first found one year ago.

The passage focuses on ______.

A．wild and farm birds

B．a fin virus

C．bird flu

D．infected birds

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第7题

Advancing age means losing your hair, your waistline and your memory, right？ Dana Denis is

just 40 years old, but (21)______ she's worried about what she calls "my rolling mental blackouts." "I try to remember something and I just blank out," she says.

You may (22)______ about these lapses, calling them "senior moments" or blaming "early Alzheimer's(老年痴呆症)." Is it an inescapable fact that the older you get, the (23)______ you remember？ Well, sort of. But as time goes by, we tend to blame age (24)______ problems that are not necessarily age-related.

"When a teenager can't find her keys, she thinks it's because she's distracted or disorganized," says Paul Gold "A 70-year-old blames her (25)______ ." In fact, the 70-year-old may have been (26)______ things for decades.

In healthy people, memory doesn't worsen as (27)______ as many of us think. "As we (28)______ , the memory mechanism isn't (29)______ ," says psychologist Fergus Craik. "It's just inefficient."

The brain's processing (30)______ slows down over the years, though no one knows exactly (31)______ Recent research suggests that nerve cells lose efficiency and (32)______ there's less activity in the brain. But, cautions Barry Gordon, "It's not clear that less activity is (33)______ . A beginning athlete is winded(气喘吁吁)more easily than a (34)______ athlete. In the same way, (35)______ the brain gets more skilled at a task, it expends less energy on it.

There are (36)______ you can take to compensate for normal slippage in your memory gears, though it (37)______ effort. Margaret Sewell says: "We're a quick-fix culture, but you have to (38)______ to keep your brain (39)______ shape. It's like having a good body. You can't go to the gym once a year (40)______ expect to stay in top form."

(21)

A．almost

B．seldom

C．already

D．never

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第8题

IV. Reading Comprehension （60 points) Directions: There are five reading passages in

IV. Reading Comprehension (60 points)

Directions: There are five reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by four questions. For each question there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose one best answer and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

Passage One

Wild and farm birds often get a flu virus. Yet they usually are able to carry the virus without getting sick.

In 1997 six people in Hong Kong died of a different kind of bird flu virus. It is called the h-five-n-one virus. The Hong Kong government quickly ordered the killing of all farm birds there. That stopped the spread of h-five-n-one to people in Hong Kong.

Yet the virus bad already spread to other parts of Asia. It was found in 16 countries between 2003 and 2006.

The h-five-n-one virus first appeared in Africa. This raised many concerns about the spread of the disease. Scientists do not know exactly how bird flu came to Africa. At first, they thought wild birds were to blame. Now, officials with the U. N. Food and Agriculture Organization believe the main cause is trade in farm birds.

The bird flu virus is found in the waste and liquids of infected birds. The virus spreads when healthy birds or people touch sick birds or nay infected (被感染了的) part of sick birds. Right now, the virus is not spreading among person to person. But the virus could change and start spreading among people. Health officials believe that it is even more possible now that bird flu has spread in Africa, and that is why international organizations are working so hard to stop its spread.

The best way to stop the spread of bird flu is to kill all the chickens in an area where bird flu has been discovered. More than 145 000 chickens have been killed in Nigeria since bird fin was first found one year ago.

36. The passage focuses on ______.

A. wild and farm birds

B. a fin virus

C. bird flu

D. infected birds

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第9题

In ancient Greece athletic festivals were very important and had strong religious associat

ion. The Olympian athletic festival held every four years in honour of Zeus, king of the Olympian Gods, eventually lost its local character, became first a national event and then, after the rules against foreign competitors had been abolished, international. No one knows exactly how far back the Olympic Games go, but some official records date from 776 B.C.

The games took place in August on the plain by Mount Olympus. Many thousands of spectators gathered from all parts of Greece, but no married woman was admitted even as a spectator. Slaves, women and dishonoured persons were not allowed to compete. The exact sequence of events is uncertain, but events included boy's gymnastics, boxing, wrestling, horse racing and field events, though there were fewer sports involved than in the modern Olympic Games.

On the last day of the Games, all the winners were honoured by having a ring of holy olive leaves placed on their heads. So great was the honour that the winner of the foot race gave his name to the year of his victory. Although Olympic winners received no prize money, they were, in fact, richly rewarded by their state authorities. How their results compared with modern standards, we unfortunately have no means of telling.

After an uninterrupted history of almost 1200 years, the Games were suspended by the Romans in 394 A.D. They continued for such a long time because people believed in the philosophy behind the Olympics: the idea that a healthy body produced a healthy mind, and that the spirit of competition in sports and games was preferable to the competition that caused wars. It was over 1500 years before another such international athletic gathering took place in Athens in 1896.

Nowadays, the Games are held in different countries in turn. The host country provides vast facilities, including a stadium, swimming pools and living accommodation, but competing countries pay their own athletes' expenses.

The Olympics start with the arrival in the stadium of a torch, lighted on Mount Olympus by the sun's rays. It is carried by a succession of runners to the stadium. The torch symbolized the continuation of the ancient Greek athletic ideals, and it burns throughout the Games until the closing ceremony. The well-known Olympic flag, however, is a modern conception: the five interlocking rings symbolize the uniting of all five continents participating in the Games.

In ancient Greece, the Olympic Games ______.

A．were merely national athletic festivals

B．were in the nature of a national event with a strong religious colour

C．had rules which put foreign participants in s disadvantageous position

D．were primarily national events with few foreign participants

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第10题

Part ADirections: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by c

Part A

Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points)

"I love Microsoft and Microsoft did not lose me", protested Robert Scoble, a little too loudly, on his blog last week, in a bid to end feverish speculation in the blogosphere about why, exactly, he had decided to leave Microsoft. The software giant's "technical evangelist", Mr. Scoble has become the best-known example of a corporate blogger. On his blog, called Scobleizer, which he started in 2000, he writes about Microsoft's products, and has sometimes criticised them fiercely—thereby both establishing his credibility and, by its willingness to tolerate him, helping to humanise his employer.

As blogging's influence has grown, so bas Mr. Scoble's—both inside and outside Microsoft. Last year, after he blogged against Microsoft's decision to abandon support for a law prohibiting discrimination against gays, the company's managers backed down. He helped write a book, Naked Conversations: How Blogs Are Changing the Way Businesses Talk With Customers, published in January, that has become essential reading for any boss trying to define a new-media strategy for his business.

So why leave？ Mr. Scoble has denied several of the theories circulating in the blogosphere, including that he had become fed up with having his expenses challenged or with sharing an office; that Microsoft challenged his views too often; that he had become, frustrated; and that the firm had not tried hard enough to keep him. Still, his friend Dave Winer, another blogger, described Microsoft as a "stifling organisation" before observing that "when he finally decided to leave, it's as if a huge weight came off him, and all of a sudden, the old Scoble is back". He views Mr. Scoble's departure as evidence that Microsoft has been unable to move with the times: "I'm glad to see my old friend didn't go down with the ship". Another blogger says that his departure shows the "end of honest blogging".

The real reason may be less sinister—though troubling for the growing number of employers encouraging their employees to biog. Blogging allows staff to build a personal brand separate from that of their firm; if they are good at it, and build up a readership, that brand may be more valuable to them elsewhere. Mr. Scoble is off to join PodTech. net, a rising star in video podcasting, which is now far more fashionable than blogging and potentially far more lucrative. It seems that Mr. Scoble is most impressed by Rocketboom, one of whose founders, Amanda Congdon, is said to be drawing 300000 viewers a day to her videoblog, and is about to start charging advertisers $85000 a week—almost as much, Mr. Scoble is reported as saying, "as I made in an entire year working at Microsoft".

Which of the following is TRUE accoding to the text？

A．Scoble's blog never gives people the false information.

B．Microsoft doesn't agree with the opinion in Scoble's biog.

C．Scoble will not write anything in his blog when he leaves Microsoft.

D．Scoble's blog becomes the most popular corporate blog in the Internet.

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_____ exactly a year ago, in a small village in Northern India, Andrea Milliner was bit