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It is one of the world's most recognized phrases, one you might even heat in places where little English is spoken: 'The name's Bond, James Bond.' I've heard it from a taxi driver in Ghana and a street sweeper in Paris, and I remember the thrill of hearing Sean Connery say it in the first Bond film I saw, Goldfinger. I was a Chicago schoolgirl when it was released in 1904. The image of a candy-colored London filled with witty people, stately bid buildings and a gorgeous, ice-cool hero instilled in me a deeprooted belief that Britain was OK.

When Ian Fleming created the man with the license to kill, based on his own experiences while working for the British secret service in World War II, he couldn't have imagined that his fictional Englishman would not only shake, but stir the entire world. Even world-weary actors are thrilled at being in a Bond movie. Christopher Walken, everyone's favorite screen psycho, who played mad genius Max Zorin in 1985's A View to a Kill, gushed: 'I remember first seeing DJ' No when I was 15. I remember Robert Shaw trying to strangle James Bond in From Russia with Love. And now here I am, trying to kill James Bond myself.'

Bond is the complete entertainment package: he has hot——and cold——running women on tap, dastardly villains bent on complete world domination, and America always plays second string to cool, sophisticated Britain. Bond's England only really existed in the adventures of Bulldog Drummond, the wartime speeches of Winston Churchill and the songs of Dame Vela Lynn.

When Fleming started to write his spy stories, the world knew that, while Britain was victorious in the war against Hitler, it was depleted as a result. London was bombed out, a dark and grubby place, while America was now the only place to be.

It was America that was producing such universal icons as Gary Cooper's cowboy in High Noon ('A man's got to do what a man's got to do'); the one-man revolution that was Elvis Presley; Marilyn Monroe, the walking, male fantasy married to Joe DiMaggio, then the most famous athlete in the world. Against this reality, Fleming had the nerve and arrogance to say that, while hot dogs and popcorn were fine, other things were more important.

And those things were uniquely British: quiet competence, unsentimental ruthlessness, clear-eyed, steely determination, an ironic sense of humor and doing a job well. All qualities epitomized by James Bond.

Of course, Bond was always more fairytale than fact, but what else is a film for? No expense is spared in production, the lead is suave and handsome, and the hardware is always awesome. In the latest film, the gadgets include a surfboard with concealed weapons, a combat knife with global positioning system beacon, a watch that doubles as a laser-beam cutter, an Aston Martin VI2 Vanquish with 'all the optional extras you've come to expect, a personal jet glider...the list is endless.

There are those who are disgusted by the Bond films' unbridled glorification of the evils of sexism, racism, ageism and extreme violence, but it's never tram simple.

According to the passage each production of a Bond film is ______.

A．lavish

B．sparing

C．increasingly expensive to make

D．difficult to finance

The strong action Tuesday in the usually stodgy old industrial

groups such as steel, mining and farm when equipment prompted a 【S1】______

number of market commentators to shake their heads in dismay and 【S2】______

comment on the outrageous quarter-end window-dressing games.

But the attitude is that these stocks are being artificially manipulated 【S3】______

by desperate funds trying to send the message on that they are 【S4】______

holding the hottest groups and not with the technology and chip 【S5】______

stocks that have been the big losers recently.

Certainly, manipulation of stock at prices is not something that we 【S6】______

want to promote, but in many cases what we are seeing is simply 【S7】______

traders creating a self-fulfilling prophecy' rather than outright

manipulation. Traders expect window-dressing to occur in the stocks

that have been hottest lately. They don't wait for the moves to occur

without them; because they get in front of the anticipated move and 【S8】______

cause it to occur. In many cases, since the end-of-the-quarter 【S9】______

window-dressing is nothing more than the work of overzealous traders.

Whatever the cause of quarter-end price in movement might be, as 【S10】______

traders like we must take advantage of it. A lot of commentators 【S11】______

whine about how terrible it is that these games are played, but if you

are a longer-term investor, so short-term price movements are totally 【S12】______

irrelevant, and if you are a short-term trader you should be happy to

see the increased volatility.

【S1】______

It is one of the world's most recognized phrased, one you might even hear in places where little English is spoken: "The name's Bond, James Bond". I've heard it from a taxi driver in Ghana and a street sweeper in Paris, and I remember the thrill of hearing Sean Connery say it in the first Bond film I saw, Gold Finger. I was a Chicago schoolgirl when it was released in 1904. The image of a candy-coloured London filled with witty people stately old buildings and a gorgeous, ice-cool hero instilled in me a deep-rooted belief that Britain was OK.

When Fan Fleming created the man with the license to kill, based on his own experiences while working for the British secret service in World War II, he couldn't have imagined that his fictional Englishman would not only shake, but stir the entire world. Even world-weary actors are thrilled at being in a Bond movie. Christopher Walkon, everyone's favorite screen psycho, who played mad genius Max Zorin in 1985's A View to a Kill, gushed: "I remember first seeing DJ'No when I was 15. I remember Robert Shaw trying to strangle James Bond in from Russia with love. And now here I am trying to kill James Bond myself."

Bond is the complete entertainment package: he has hot and cold running women on tap dastardly villains bent on complete world domination, and America always plays second string to cool, sophisticated Britain. Bond's England only really existed in the adventures of Bulldog Drummond, the wartime speeches of Winston Churchill and the songs of Dame Vera Lynn.

When Fleming started to write his spy stories, the world knew that, while Britain was victorious in the war against Hitler, it was depleted as a result. London was bombed out, a dark and grubby place, while America was now the only place to be.

It was America that was producing such universal icons as Gary Cooper's cowboy in High Noon ("A man's got to do what a man's got to do"); the one-man music revolution that was Elvis Presley: Marilyn Monroe, the walking, talking male fantasy married to Joe DiMaggio, then the most famous athlete in the world. Against this reality, Fleming had the nerve and arrogance to say that, while hot dogs and popcorn were fine, other things were more important.

And those things were uniquely British: quiet competence, unsentimental ruthlessness, clear-eyed, steely determination, an ironic sense of humour and doing a job well. All qualities epitomized by James Bond.

Of course, Bond was always more fairytale than fact, but what else is a film for? No expense is spared in production, the lead is suave and handsome, and the hardware is always awesome. In the latest film, the gadgets include a surfboard with concealed weapons, a combat knife with global positioning system beacon, a watch that doubles as a laser-beam cutter, an Aston Martin VI2 Vanquish with all the optional extras you've come to expect, a personal jet glider.., the list is endless.

There are those who are disgusted by the Bond films unbridled glorification of the evils of sexism, racism, ageism and extreme violence, but it's never that simple.

According to the passage each production of a Bond film is ______.

A．lavish

B．sparing

C．increasingly expensive to make

D．difficult to finance

In the United States, about 750, 000 persons have suffered AIDS. More than one half of them have died.

But doctors say evidence also shows there is no reason for persons to become terrified by the disease. The AIDS virus is spread during sex with an infected partner, or by infected blood. But doctors say their studies show the disease is not spread through normal, close social activities.

A study by one research team was printed in the New England Journal of Medicine. The doctors studied one-hundred-one family members who lived with AIDS and lived in crowded conditions. The family members shared many personal goods with the patients. These included toothbrushes, drinking glasses, beds, towels and toilets.

Doctors said only one family member—a five-year-old girl—got the AIDS virus. They note, however, that the girl's mother had the disease. They believe the girl probably was born with the virus. No other family member in the study got the AIDS virus or showed any signs of the disease.

The head of the study, Gerald Friedland, said if the disease is not easily spread in crowded homes, it also will not spread easily in factories, offices, schools and other public places. (67) Doctor Friedland said the study also shows there is no reason to punish AIDS patients and to force them to live separately from other persons.

American health officials recently warned, however, that some health care workers should take special care. The report noted the AIDS virus is carried in blood and other body fluids. It said health care workers should put protective covers over their eyes and skin during medical operations, dental work, or other times when the patient may bleed.

(68)In the United States, most AIDS patients are homosexual people, people taking drugs, people who used infected needles, and persons who received infected blood. More recent studies show the AIDS virus also can be spread during heterosexual(异性的)relations. It can spread either from the man to the woman, or from the woman to the man.

Doctors say there is no reason for people to be frightened about AIDS because______.

A．it is not deadly

B．few people are infected with AIDS

C．the AIDS virus is not spread in everyday social activities

D．the AIDS virus is not spread during sex

In the United States, about 750, 000 persons have suffered AIDS. More than one half of them have died.

But doctors say evidence also shows there is no reason for persons to become terrified by the disease. The AIDS virus is spread during sex with an infected partner, or by infected blood. But doctors say their studies show the disease is not spread through normal, close social activities.

A study by one research team was printed in the New England Journal of Medicine. The doctors studied one-hundred-one family members who lived with AIDS and lived in crowded conditions. The family members shared many personal goods with the patients. These included toothbrushes, drinking glasses, beds, towels and toilets.

Doctors said only one family member—a five-year-old girl—got the AIDS virus. They note, however, that the girl's mother had the disease. They believe the girl probably was born with the virus. No other family member in the study got the AIDS virus or showed any signs of the disease.

The head of the study, Gerald Friedland, said if the disease is not easily spread in crowded homes, it also will not spread easily in factories, offices, schools and other public places. (67) Doctor Friedland said the study also shows there is no reason to punish AIDS patients and to force them to live separately from other persons.

American health officials recently warned, however, that some health care workers should take special care. The report noted the AIDS virus is carried in blood and other body fluids. It said health care workers should put protective covers over their eyes and skin during medical operations, dental work, or other times when the patient may bleed.

(68)In the United States, most AIDS patients are homosexual people, people taking drugs, people who used infected needles, and persons who received infected blood. More recent studies show the AIDS virus also can be spread during heterosexual(异性的)relations. It can spread either from the man to the woman, or from the woman to the man.

Doctors say there is no reason for people to be frightened about AIDS because______.

A．it is not deadly

B．few people are infected with AIDS

C．the AIDS virus is not spread in everyday social activities

D．the AIDS virus is not spread during sex

Part B

Directions: You will hear four dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which accompany it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have 10 seconds to check your answer to each question. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE.

听力原文： A steadily expanding appetite for coal, fuelled by China' s rapid industrial growth, has led to a dramatic rise in environmental damage from acid rain, the China Daily, an official Chinese newspaper, reported on December 7,1999. The newspaper summarised the findings of a recent study conducted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Academy of Forestry(CAF).

The study' s authors said that after Europe and North America, China is the world' s third largest region to be affected by acid rain, a type of air pollution formed when oxides of sulfur and nitrogen combine with atmospheric moisture. Nearly 50 percent of China' s land area is now affected, a figure the researchers expect will rise.

I had to go to Washington last week for a conference. I arrived at the airport in plenty of time and checked in, but I only had one small case so I decided to take it on the plane as hand luggage. As the flight was not due to board for 45 minutes, I went to a cafe, sat down, and ordered a cup of coffee.

While I was sitting there drinking my coffee and reading my paper, I was vaguely aware of a woman and her child coming to sit at the next table. I did not pay much attention to them, though, and when my flight was called I reached for my case and left. An hour later, the plane was in the air and I decided to look at the conference programme to see what I wanted to attend. Imagine my horror when I opened the case and found that it was full of picture books and children' s toys—and imagine what-the woman must have thought about a case full of men' s clothes and scientific papers!

From which academy' s findings, China Daily summarised the report?

A．The Chinese Academy of Sciences.

B．The Chinese Academy of Forestry.

C．The Chinese Academy of Environment.

D．Both A and

Transportation

Visitors to America are immediately struck by the tremendous numbers of automobiles filling the highways and crowding the city streets. The automobile, which has transformed the American way of life, is the most indispensable workhorse of the family. During the week the father drives it to his job in the city, alone, or in a "car pool" arrangement with several of his fellow workers. When he leaves it at home, his wife uses it constantly to do errands(差事), to haul groceries, to drive children to lessons or appointments, to shops or swimming pools. On weekends the family drives out to the country for a picnic lunch or may take a trip of several hundred miles. On vacations, no corner of the country is beyond the family's reach.

Transportation Changed People's Life

All of America has felt the changes which came with the automobile and with the network of highways that have been built to serve it. Farmers, who live far from their neighbors, are no longer isolated. Tractors do the work of the many farmhands they cannot afford to hire; trucks carry their products to market, to storage elevators or to railroads.

Ownership of cars has made it possible for families to move out of cities to suburban areas and to small towns in the countryside, sometimes as much as 50 miles from where they work. Many businesses and stores have followed their customers to establish rural factories and suburban shopping centers surrounded by huge parking lots.

Traffic Problems

Traffic jams in cities and along the approaches to cities, especially at morning and evening rush hours and at the start and end of weekends, are difficult problems. How to find enough parking spaces in the cities, even with underground parking lots and many-storied "pigeonhole" parking structures, is another problem. More highways and wider ones are needed as fast as they can be built.

New Means of Transportation

America's good roads are very recent. When pioneer families crossed the country in covered wagons little more than 100 years ago along deep-rutted(有车辙的) roads, they were fortunate if they could make the trip in 109 days. Less than 60 years ago an automobile made the same trip and it still took 74 days, rather than 7 days it might take today. America had very few good roads before the mass production of the automobile made them necessary.

Now it takes a tremendous road building program, great sums of money, thousands of men, machines with wheels taller than the men who drive them and a great deal of planning to keep up with the highway needs of American. Thousands of miles of roads, most of which four and eight lanes wide, are being built, including expressways through and around large cities. They will scarcely keep up with the need, for there are many more cars each year. The number of cars in America is growing faster than the population. In two cities there are already more cars than families.

Before the modern highways were built, America's railroads carried people and products across the country. Railroads played an exciting and colorful part in the growth of America in the second half of the nineteenth century. Their iron tracks bound the country together and along their lines sprang up the cities, towns and villages that served as the market places for Americans moving West. In 1869 the first transcontinental railway was completed and at the point in Utah where the track from the East met the track from the West, a solid gold railway spike was driven in to fasten down the rail.

Today the railroads still serve as America's largest carrier of freight, hauling raw materials and goods to factories and stores, but they no longer carry many of America's travelers. In 1971 part of the railroads were put under government control when the National Passenger Corporation(known as Amtrak) took over responsibility for all intercity passeng

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New York welcomes all, as the big green lady in the harbor says, no matter how poor, how tired, how hungry or how wretched. But Lady Liberty never mentioned anything about ugly, or freaky (畸形的), or downright devilish, and even she might have a hard time getting at all gushy about some of the most recent immigrants to the city.

They are snakehead fish, the nightmarish (噩梦似的) creatures from Asia that made news when they were discovered living in a Maryland pond in 2002. They were said to be able to breathe air and walk on their fins, devouring (吞食) everything in their path.

Secretary of the Interior Gale A. Norton called them "something from a bad horror movie" before ordering a federal ban. And to guarantee that they could not escape, the whole Maryland pond was poisoned.

Last month, biologists with New York State's Department of Environmental Conservation were doing a routine sampling of the fish in the brackish water at Meadow Lake in Flushing MeadowsCorona Park in Queens when, to their horror, they found a northern snakehead fish, then another and another until they had five, including one monster 28 inches long. "At that point," said James J. Gilmore Jr., a biologist who is regional supervisor of natural resources at the state agency's New York City office, "we knew we had a problem."

To confirm that the fish were snakeheads, Mr. Gilmore sent photographs to the United States Geological Survey office in Gainesville, Fla., which is mission control for the national crusade to eradicate snakeheads. "As soon as I saw the pictures, I said,' Oh no, not again,'" said Walter R. Courtenay Jr., a fisheries biologist with the Geological Survey who has tracked down snakeheads in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Virginia. His message to New York: Get rid of them.

The snakehead, a native of Asia, is a compact stalking machine packed with rows of sharp teeth, a torpedo-like body suited to darting out of hiding holes to chase, and catch, other fish and a voracious appetite that can lead them to devour every other fish in the lake or pond where they live. "They are top predators (食肉动物)," Mr. Gilmore said. "They will outcompete other native fish for food and dominate the lake."

The carp, white perch and pumpkinseed fish that now inhabit the 93-acre Meadow Lake will be wiped out if the snakeheads can reproduce unchecked, Mr. Gilmore said. That is why it is critical to act now, before they are well established. He believed someone might have bought several in an Asian fish store a few years ago before the ban was enforced and deliberately released them in the lake, hoping they would reproduce there and provide some inexpensive dinners.

Judging from the context, "the big green lady" (Line 1, Paragraph 1) refers to ______.

A．a lady in charge of the harbor

B．the symbol of New York City

C．the statue of liberty

D．a famous American woman

We develop our impressions of other countries and their people through books, movies, television, magazines, fellow students, and friends. But is there really any substitute for first-hand experience?

Come, spend a summer studying in the USA, and get to know people and a land which are incredibly rich in their variety. You may end up on an urban campus or a rural one, at a small school or a large one, in a cool climate or a warm one, in San Francisco or St. Louis. But whatever your experience, it will be first-hand, personal, alive, and unforgettable!

If you spend a summer studying in the USA, you'll have advantages which the tourist never will. Not only will you learn the subject matter of your choice, but you’ll gain an understanding of the American educational system as well. You'll experience the culture of the people and the dynamics of your physical environment. But above all, as a student you'll have a chance to meet Americans. Get to know them, communicate, exchange ideas and opinions, and hopefully form. friendships which will endure beyond the length of your stay in the USA.

The following articles will help you in deciding which summer program to choose, what to bring, and how to adjust to the life in the USA. But the first and most important decision is one which you can make right now. Why not say, "This summer, I'll be studying in the USA!"

According to the passage, our impressions of other countries and their people are usually developed ______.

A．through first-hand experience

B．in the very countries

C．through friendships with people

D．through various sources of experience