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taxes, prosperity and depression, and hundreds of other matters that______ affect the way we live.

A．intimately

B．physically

C．tenderly

D．passionately

g towards a discovery which saved millions of lives, completely changed the way operations were carried out, made great changes to the food we eat and helped doctors to solve the mystery of hundreds of illnesses.

aged spice islands sank yesterday and it was not clear whether anyone had survived, rescue officials said.

Officials said the ship had a capacity of 200 passengers but around 500 were believed to have been aboard after hundreds of refugees fought their way on to the ferry on the island of Halmahera, scene of bloody religious violence this month.

"The were about 198 passengers and crew on top of around 290 refugees," Solaeman, head Of the search and rescue team in the north Sulawesi capital of Manado, told Reuters.

What is the news mainly about？

A．Religious violence.

B．Refugee issues.

C．A ferry disaster.

D．A rescue operation.

Read the text and decide the function of the 1st sentence in the text. Managers will often put a CV on the rejection pile for any number of reasons. This is not something one should take personally. It happens because they will receive hundreds of applications for a job and need a way to cut that number down quickly to the twenty or so they intend to interview. The list is obviously endless, but includes major gaps, such as lack of qualifications, and minor oversights, such as spelling errors. What is the function of the 1st sentence in the text？

A、supporting reason

B、topic sentence

C、example

D、summary

aged spice islands sank yesterday and it was not clear whether anyone had survived, rescue officials said.

Officials said the ship had a capacity of 200 passengers but around 500 were believed to have been aboard after hundreds of refugees fought their way on to the ferry on the island of Halmahera, scene of bloody religious violence this month.

"The were about 198 passengers and crew on top of around 290 refugees," Solaeman, head Of the search and rescue team in the north Sulawesi capital of Manado, told Reuters.

What is the news mainly about？

A．Religious violence.

B．Refugee issues.

C．A ferry disaster.

D．A rescue operation.

Read the text and decide the function of each sentence in the text. Managers will often put a CV on the rejection pile for any number of reasons. This is not something one should take personally. It happens because they will receive hundreds of applications for a job and need a way to cut that number down quickly to the twenty or so they intend to interview. The list is obviously endless, but includes major gaps, such as lack of qualifications, and minor oversights, such as spelling errors. Managers will often put a CV on the rejection pile for any number of reasons.

A、supporting reason

B、topic sentence

C、example

D、summary

mony in Baghdad. Iraqi officials say at least 640 have died and the figure may rise. The disaster comes as Iraqis are registering to vote on the country's proposed new constitution, an issue which has sharply divided the ShiRe and Sunni communities. From Baghdad John Brain reports:

"The stampede began as up to a million Shiites were making their way towards a holy shrine in the north of the city. Rumors circulated that a suicide bomber was amongst the crowds. In the resulting panic hundreds of worshipers were crushed to death as they tried to escape a crosser bridge over the river Tigris. The bridge's iron railings then collapsed, throwing hundreds more people over the side. Tensions had already been high after several mortars were fired towards the shrine early in the day, killing 16 worshipers, an attack clearly aimed at fermenting sectarian divisions. Iraq's Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari has declared three days of national mourning."

How many people have died in the disaster？

A．Less than 600.

B．Less than 640.

C．614 or so.

D．More than 640.

Identify what type of argument the following statements are: induction or deduction. For example: Socrates was Greek, and most Greeks eat fish. Therefore, Socrates ate fish. induction 1. Every time I went to that store, I bumped into Susan buying candies. Susan must have a sweet tooth. _________ 2. Jack and Mary always go to school together. Now that I see Jack on the way to school, I dare say that Mary is around. _________ 3. Hundreds of thousands of protesters take to the streets around the world in mass demonstrations against the war against Iraq. It shows that people all over the world long for peace. _______

Science seems to be getting closer to answering a very old mystery (奥秘). Homing pigeons (信鸽) can be taken hundreds of miles from their homes. When they are let to go to fly again, they find their way home. Because of this special ability to find home, pigeons have been used as messengers for hundreds of years.

Today people even breed homing pigeons for racing as a sport. The birds are shipped to some chosen place a few hundred miles away. Then all of them are let to go together. The winner is the bird that gets home first. A good racer can make it home from 500 miles away in a single day.

The mystery of the homing pigeon is how it tells direction and how it finds home.

The first part seems to be pretty well answered, and we know of two ways that pigeons tell directions. First, they use the sun. Experiments show that homing pigeons can tell directions by the sun. What happens when the sky is darkly overcast by clouds and no one can see where the sun is？ Then the pigeons still find their way home.

Naturally, people have wondered whether pigeons might have a built-in compass—something that would tell them about the direction of the earth’s magnetic (磁的) field. Many different kinds of experiments were done. Here’s what the scientists decided after they had made experiments many times. When pigeons can see the sun, they use it as their main means(手段)of direction-finding. When they cannot see the sun, they use some special way to sense direction from the earth’s magnetic field.

But how do pigeons know which direction is toward home？ What do they use that we would call a map？ These are other questions to be answered.

Pigeons have been used as messengers because ______.

A．they have a built-in compass

B．they can cover 500 miles in a single day

C．they have special ability to tell directions

D．they can find their way home

听力原文： Astronomers have spent hundreds of years searching for signs of life on other planets, using telescopes. When they saw the geography of Mars, they thought they could see canals and that this might be evidence of intelligent life on the planet. More recently, however, spacecraft have been sent to analyze the soil for signs of life. The results were negative and astronomers are now convinced that no life exists on the surface of any other planet in our solar system. To send a spacecraft far beyond our solar system is not realistic because of the huge distances involved.

The only way we are likely to know of its existence is from radio messages unless life comes and visits us. Listening for intelligent life is not a new idea, but the techniques now being used to offer much better chance of success than before. Looking for evidence of life in other solar systems now means using special radio receivers called radio telescopes to listen out for messages. The assumption is that intelligent forms of life would have discovered radio waves and would, like us, be using them to communicate.

Through its research work, astronomers have developed two means of systematically searching for intelligent life. The first method is to select the closet 800 stars like our sun and to direct a radio telescope to scan each one of them for electromagnetic waves. The second way is to survey the entire sky, listening for continuous signals. All this, as well as the chance of discovering that maybe we are not alone in the universe!

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A．Intelligent life.

B．Canals of some kind.

C．Signs of life.

D．Natural resources.