The current ___________ as we moved down the river.

Imagine being laid up in a hospital and, as you're wheeled down the sterile hallway, along strolls a three-foot-tall horse wearing yellow rubber booties and a backpack full of daisies. No, you're not having a morphine——induced hallucination, you haven't died and landed in some kind of surreal Barnum &Bailey heaven. You've just met Lucky Boy, one of the thousands of animals making the rounds at hospitals across the United States. Fifteen years ago it used to be unusual to see a dog or cat in a hospital, but now even miniature horses like Lucky Boy are lumbering down the corridors. And as animal-assisted therapy continues to grow in popularity, a range of pets worthy of Noah's Ark is turning up in medical centers——everything from pot-bellied pigs, pigmy goats and parrots, to pet chickens, giant rats and llamas.

The greater presence of animals in health-care settings comes amid increasing evidence that pets are good for us and can play a significant role in patients' recovery. Sometimes known as "pet therapy," animal-assisted therapy and activities have become an important tool for doctors and rehabilitation specialists. "Animals motivate people to participate in their therapies, brighten patients' days, give them a chance to talk about the animals in their lives, and give them the opportunity to forget that they're in a hospital," says Dianne Bell, coordinator of the Delta Society Pet Partners program, which helps train and register animals and their owners for volunteer positions in health- care settings.

Currently there are more than 8,000 Delta Society Pet Partner teams in the United States and a handful of other countries, says Bell. Each makes an average of three visits per month and is likely to touch the lives of more than 540 people per year. And these figures don't include the hundreds of other volunteer teams registered through different programs.

According to the passage, pets are used in health-care settings mainly because _________.

A．doctors like pets and want to keep them where they work.

B．evidence shows that pets help patients recover.

C．patients can help train and register these pets.

D．some experiments need these pets.

听力原文： People said that Saint-Pierre was the "Paris of the West Indies". This beautiful little port lay between a long beach and pretty little volcano, Mont Pelee. The volcano was not dead. Stream began to come out of the lake in 1901. The volcano began to throw up how ashes in April 1902. They fell all day on May 2nd. School children stayed at home and shops and offices were closed. It was difficult to breathe and people got sore eyes and throats. On May 5th it rained heavily and a river of boiling mud rushed down the mountain. Some lava came down on May 7th. Many people wanted to leave--but they did not go. The politicians told them that there was no danger. They wanted them to vote in the election on May 10th. There was no election. At 7:52 on May 8th the people heard four loud bangs. At 7:59 the volcano exploded. A cloud of hot gas blew over the city at 150-300 kilometers an hour. A minute later the city was burning. Only two people escaped alive. Mont Pelee killed 30,000 people in three minutes.

What destroyed Saint-Pierre?

A．A big fire.

B．A rain storm.

C．The eruption of a volcano.

D．A big flood.

The term "virus" is derived from the Latin word for

position, or slime. It was originally applied to the noxious

stench emanating from swamps that was thought to cause a

variety of disease in the centuries before microbes were S1.______

discovered and specifically linked to illness. But it was S2.______

until almost the end of the nineteenth century that a true

virus was proven to be the reason of a disease. S3.______

The nature of viruses made them impossible to detect

for many years, even after bacteria had been discovered and

studied. Not only are viruses too small to be seen with a

light microscope, they also cannot be detected through their S4.______

biological activity, except as it occurs in conjunction with

other organisms. In fact, viruses show no traces of biological

activity by themselves. Unlike bacteria, they are not living

agents in the strictest way. Viruses are very simple pieces S5.______

of organic material composing only of nucleic acid, either S6.______

DNA or RNA, enclosed with a coat of protein made up of S7.______

simple structural units. (Some viruses also contain

carbohydrates and lipid.) They are parasites require S8.______

human, animal, or plant cells to live. The virus replicates

by attaching to a cell and inject its nucleic acid; once S9.______

inside the cell, the DNA or RNA that contains the virus'

genetic information takes on the cell's biological machinery, S10.______

and the cell begins to manufacture virtual proteins rather

than its own.

【S1】

Greenwich is on the River Thames, five miles from the middle of London, and its story is 2,000 years old. The first English people, the Saxons, were fishermen there, and they gave Greenwich its name "green village". Before came the Roman, you could still walk on the old Roman road in Greenwich Park. But the river was the true road to the outside world for the Romans, and for the English kings and queens who later live at Greenwich in their beautiful palaces.

The name of the earliest palace was Placentia. Its windows were made of glass--the first in England. Herry Va loved placentia. But Henry understood the future of his country, too: he knew that England must be strong at sea. So he started two big shipyards at Greenwich, and for 350 years the ships made there were the best in the world.

In 1649, a war started in England and for eleven years there was no king. When the war ended, Placentia was falling down. So King Charles 1I built a new and bigger palace, which is now the Royal (皇家的) Naval College and is open to the public.

At this time, Charles was worried about losing so many of his ships at sea: Their sailors didn't know how to tell exactly where they were. So in 1675 Charles made John Flamsteed the first Astronomer (天文台) Royal, to try to find the answer. Flamsteed worked in a new Observatory (天文台) on the high ground in Greenwich Park. With a telescope he made himself, Flamsteed could look all around the sky. And he did, night after night, for twenty years. Carrying on Fiamsteed's work a hundred years later, an astronomer called Harrison (1693 - 1776) finally made a clock which told the time at sea; and helped sailors to know where they were. You can see Harrison’s clock, still working, in Greenwich’s museum of the sea. Because of Flamsteed’s work, every country in the world now tells its time by Greenwich time.

Who first lived in the place that is called Greenwich today according to this passage ? ______.

A．Henry Ⅷ

B．Romans

C．Charles Ⅱ

D．the Saxons

The word religion is derived from the Latin noun religio, which denotes both earnest observance of ritual obligations and an inward spirit of reverence. In modern usage, religion covers a wide spectrum of meaning that reflects the enormous variety of ways the term can be interpreted. At one extreme, many committed believers recognize only their own tradition as religion, understanding expressions such as worship and prayer to refer exclusively to the practices of their tradition. Although many believers stop sort of claiming an exclusive status for their tradition, they may nevertheless use vague or idealizing terms in defining religion for example, true love of God, or the path of enlightenment. At the other extreme, religion may be equated wit ignorance, fanaticism, or wishful thinking.

  By defining religion as a sacred engagement with what is taken to be a spiritual reality, it is possible to consider the importance of religion in human life without making claims about what it really is or ought to be. Religion is not an object with a single, flexed meaning, or even a zone with clear boundaries. It is an aspect of human experience that may intersect, incorporate, or transcend other aspects of life and society. Such a definition avoid the drawbacks of limiting the investigation of religion to Western or biblical categories such as monotheism (belief in one god only) or to church structure, which are not universal. For example, in tribal societies, religion unlike the Christian church usually is not a separate institution but pervades the whole of public and private life. In Buddhism, gods are not as central as the idea of a Buddha. In many traditional cultures, the idea of a sacred cosmic order is the most prominent religious belief. Because of this variety, some scholars prefer to use a general term such as the sacred to designate the common foundation of religious life.

  Religion in his understanding includes a complex of activities that cannot be reduced to any single aspect of human experience. It is a part of individual life but also of group dynamics. Religion includes not only patterns of behavior but also patterns of language and thought. It is sometimes an integral part of a culture. Religious experience may be expressed in visual symbols, dance and performance, elaborate philosophical systems, legendary and imaginative stories, formal ceremonies, and detailed rules of ethical conduct and law. Each of these elements assumes innumerable cultural forms. In some ways there are as many forms of religious expression as there are human cultural environment.

The great chariot of society, which for so long had run down the gentle slope of tradition, now found itself powered by an internal combustion engine. Transactions and gain 【51】 a new and startling 【52】 force.

What forces could have been 【53】 powerful to smash a comfortable and 【54】 world and institute in its place this new society? There was no single massive 【55】 . It was not great events, single adventures, individual laws, or charming 【56】 which 【57】 about the economic revolution. It was a process of internal growth.

First, there was the gradual emergence of national political 【58】in Europe. A second great current of change was to be found in the slow decay of the religious spirit under the 【59】 of the skeptical, inquiring, humanist views of the Italian Renaissance. Still another 【60】 current lies in the slow social changes that eventually rendered the market system possible. In the course of this change, power naturally began to gravitate into the hands of those who understood money matters--the merchants.

(51)

A．catered

B．created

C．ebbed

D．traded