Rose knows that continuous letters from John, together with countless roses, are aimed at making her fall ___ love with him.

Questions下列各are based on the following passage. Just over a decade into the 21st century, womens progress can be celebrated across a range of fields.They hold the highest political offices from Thailand to Brazil, Costa Rica to Australia. A woman holds thetop spot at the International Monetary Fund; another won the Nobel Prize in economics. Self-madebillionaires in Beijing, tech innovators in Silicon Valley, pioneering justices in Ghana—in these andcountless other areas, women are leaving their mark. But hold the applause. In Saudi Arabia, women arent allowed to drive. In Pakistan,1,000 womendie in honor killings every year. In the developed world, women lag behind men in pay and politicalpower. The poverty rate among women in the U.S. rose to I4.5% last year. To measure the state ofwomens progress. Newsweek ranked 165 countries, looking at five areas thataffect womens lives: treatment under the law, workforce participation, political power, and access toeducation and health care. Analyzing data from the United Nations and the World EconomicForum,among others, and consulting with experts and academics, we measured 28 factors to come up with ourmakings. Countries with the highest scores tend to be clustered in the West, where gender :discrimination isagain.st the law, and equal rightsare constitutionally enshrined (神圣化). But there were some surprises.Some otherwise high-ranking countries had relatively low scores for political representation. Canadaranked third overall but 26th in power, behind countries such as Cuba and Burundi. Does this suggest thata woman in a nations top office translates to better lives for women in general? Not exactly. "Trying toquantify or measure the impact of women in politics is hard because in very few countries have there beenenough women in politics to make a difference," says Anne-Marie Goetz, peace and security adviser forU.N. Women. Of course, no index can account for everything. Declaring that one country is better than another inthe way that it treats more than half its citizens means relying on broad strokes and generalities. Somethings simply cant be measured. And cross-cultural comparisons cant account for differences of opinion.Certain conclusions are nonetheless clear. For one thing, our index backs up a simple but profoundstatement made by Hillary Clinton at the recent Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. "When weliberate the economic potential of women, we elevate the economic performance of communities, nations,and the world," she said. "Theres a stimulative effect that kicks in when women have greater access tojobs and the economic lives of our countries: Greater political stability. Fewer military conflicts. Morefood. More educational opportunity for children. By harnessing the economic potential of all women, weboost opportunity for all people. " What does the author think about womens progress so far?

A.It still leaves much to be desired.

B.It has greatly changed womens fate.

C.It is too remarkable to be measured.

D.It is achieved through hard struggle.

Man has always wanted to fly.Even as long as eight hundred years ago, an Englishman had tried.He made a (1)of wings from chicken feathers and fixed them to his shoulders.Then he jumped om a tall building.As you can imagine, he did not fly very far.(2) he fell to the ground and broke several bones.The first real attempt at flying took place in France in 1783.The two Mongolian brothers knew that hot air rose.If they could

fill a large balloon(3)hot air, they thought it would rise into the air and fly.They were right.They made a very large hot air balloon of cloth and paper.It measured ten meters it diameter.They filled it with hot air and the balloon got two hundred meters into the air.It fell into earth about three kilometers away.

At the next attempt, they (4) passengers use a bal loon to rise into the air and fly.We do not know what the passengers fell about the trip as they were a cock, a duck, and a sheep But we (5) know that the trip lasted eight minutes and the animals landed safely.(完型填空)

A.Instead

B.Pair

C.Do

D.Arranged

E.With

SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST

Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. At the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions.

听力原文： The death toll rose to 74 on Tuesday in Japan's deadly rail crash in decades. As crews pulled more victims from the wreckage. Investigators focused on whether excessive speed or the drivers inexperience had caused the train to derail, and slam into an apartment building. The seven-car commuter train carrying 580 passengers left the rails Monday morning near Amagasaki, a suburb of Osaka about 250 miles west of Tokyo. It injured more than 440 people.

What happened on Monday?

A．A train crash occurred causing minor injuries.

B．Investigator found out the cause of the accident.

C．Crews rescued more passengers from the site.

D．A commuter train crashed into a building.

Part A

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

NASA launched the first space mission to Pluto yesterday as a powerful rocket hurled the New Horizons spacecraft on a nine-year, three-billion-mile journey to the edge of the solar system

As it soared toward a 2007 meeting with Jupiter, whose powerful gravitational field will shoot it on its way to Pluto. Mission managers said radio communications confirmed that the 1,054-pound craft was in good health.

The $700 million mission began when a Lockheed Martin Atlas 5 rocket rose from a launching pad at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 2 p.m., almost an hour later than planned because of low clouds that obscured a clear view of the flight path by tracking cameras.

Less than an hour later, all three stages of the booster rocket worked as planned, and the spacecraft separated from them and sprinted away toward deep space. The robot ship sped away at about 36,000 miles per hour, the fastest flight of any spacecraft sent from Earth, allowing it to pass the Moon in about nine hours.

"This is a historic day", said Alan Stem of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo, the mission's principal scientist and team leader. Speaking at a news conference at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Dr. Stern said the timing assured that the New Horizons would arrive for its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015—the 50th anniversary of the first flyby of Mars by the Mariner 4. the mission that began the exploration of the planets.

The New Horizons is powered by a small plutonium-fired electric generator. Its instruments include three cameras, for visible-light, infrared and ultraviolet images, and three spectrometers to study the composition and temperatures of Pluto's thin atmosphere and surface features. It also carries a University of Colorado dust counter, the first experiment to fly on a planetary mission that is entirely designed and operated by students. This is the only experiment that will not hibernate during the mission.

Yesterday's liftoff also paid regard to Pluto's discoverer, the astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh, who in 1930 became the only American to find a planet in the solar system.(He died at 90 in 1997.) His widow, Patricia Tombaugh, 93, and other family members were present at the cape, and some of his remains were among the commemorative items aboard the spacecraft. "Some of Clyde's ashes are on their way to Pluto today", Dr. Stem said.

The New Horizons is to reach Jupiter's gravitational field in 13 months. The trip to Pluto will take eight more years, most of which the craft will spend in electronic "hibernation" to save power and wear on the equipment needed for its seven experiments.

In addition to the two-hour delay, the launching was postponed twice in two days—on Tuesday by strong winds at the cape and on Wednesday by a storm that caused a power; failure at the spacecraft's control center at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel. Md. Mission planners had until Feb. 14 to launch the mission this year, but only until the end of this month to use the gravity boost from Jupiter, which will shorten the trip to Pluto by five years.

In the opening paragraph, the author introduces his topic by______.

A．describing a situation

B．justifying an assumption

C．making a comparison

D．presenting a phenomenon

听力原文：Man: Well, I definitely agree with you, Rose, that the suggestions scheme is a good idea - Woman: Good.

Man: - and it's got the MD's support, which is crucial, of course.

Woman: Yes. Well, I am pleased, because where I've seen these schemes in other companies, they do seem to be valuable, you know, worth setting up.

Man: I suppose because they push profits up?

Woman: Yuh, well, not exactly. I mean, yes, ultimately, that can happen ... but it's more that if you get an efficient scheme going, one that runs well, then the real advantage is people feel more involved, that they matter more, so you get more energy around the place.

Man: I see what you mean. OK, so when we get the suggestions in, how do we start? I guess we check out viability - if it's worth going ahead?

Woman: Certainly you've got to be seen to respond. But actually the first thing, crucially, is to acknowledge it. I'd have thought we could use the noticeboard for that, put the suggestions on it, so people see immediately that it goes somewhere.

Man: Right. And now, is there anyone who can't be involved, do you think? I was thinking that the assistants maybe shouldn't -

Woman: Oh no, they should have a say, some of their ideas could be useful, and it's important for them to feel more involved. I was wondering about the directors and so on, because there's a danger -

Man: That their ideas would seem like orders?

Woman: Absolutely. Mind you, I think we can set the thing up so that all ideas are to be judged as ideas, regardless of the level they've come from.

Man: OK - but I do think, whatever level they're at, that I'm not sure about including the Research and Development people.

Woman: I think you've got a point there, yes, I mean R &; D could be setting their own agenda because they could just end up putting forward existing ideas, and then getting extra for them.

Man: Yes - we'd have to make sure that that can't happen. Right, so how should we do the rewards? I was thinking of a proportion of the benefit, once we know it - I mean, assuming the idea runs.

Woman: Oh yes, obviously only the ones put into action will get ... so, er, well, it'll depend on when we can see the benefits come in, I suppose, say two years would - or we could pay out over a three year time-scale?

Man: I don't think we can predict the time, it depends on too many factors. Why don't we just say we estimate the value of the idea in terms of worth to the company, and pay a proportion of that right away?

Woman: So, a fifth, for example?

Man: Sounds reasonable. And we work out the time-scale later...

Woman: What matters now, I think, is to get the idea over to people that it's something they'd have fun doing.

Man: More chance of promotion!

Woman: But we can't make any promises there. I'm not even that keen on profit or sales margins here, just the idea that they'll feel good if they come up with new ideas. But then we really don't know exactly where it's going to lead us. It might really vary from office to office.

Man: Mmm ... let's start with head office, shall we? Or one of the regions?

Woman: Well, we've got to start somewhere. How about the south-western branch office?

Man: Uh-huh. And then spread to everywhere else later.

Woman: Right. Now, how are they going to get their suggestions to us?

Man: However they want.

Woman: What, even by phone?

Man: Oh, I see what you mean, could be pretty disruptive -

Woman: If we get a lot ... or memos -

Man: Would be good. They're simple, direct ... in a box, maybe, in Reception -

Woman: But then we'd be putting off any people who don't go in there -

Man: True. OK, they can send them to us then. Well, I hope this is going to work!

Woman: Bound to. It's not a question of whether it works, but how well! We'll need to evaluate it, of course, for the board. They'll want to know how much money we think we're saving.

Man: But I don't think we'll know that e

A．profitability.

B．motivation.

C．efficiency.