A seaman assaults the Second Mate and injures him ...

A seaman assaults the Second Mate and injures him with a beer bottle while the ship is at se

A.The incident is logged in the Official Logbook. In subsequent suspension and revocation proceedings against the seaman，according to the regulations，______

B.the Second Mate and the Master must testify as to the facts of the assault

C.the case will be dismissed if the logbook entries are improperly made

D.the logbook entry is prima facie evidence of the facts if it complies with the law

E.the logbook is inadmissible if the logbook entries do not conform to the law

听力原文： Jerusalem, Jan. 27. Mark Sokolow escaped without injury from the second tower of the World Trade Center during the attack on Sept. 11. Today he was walking with his family in the scarred central shopping district here when a Palestinian bomber set off an explosion that resounded throughout Jerusalem, killing herself and an 81-year-old man and wounded 113, most of them slightly.

"I was a lot luckier last time." Mr. Sokolow, a 43-year-old lawyer from Woodmere, NY, said as he recovered in a hospital here from shrapnel wounds to his face and leg. "This one involved my whole family."

After a frantic search for his wife and two of his daughters, he learned at the hospital that most of their wounds were also slight, though one girl, Jamie, 12, had shrapnel in her right eye. She was likely to retain her sight, doctors said.

How old is Mark Sokolow who was reported to be injured in an explosion in Jerusalem?

A．43.

B．81.

C．27.

D．30.

Which of the following statements is true, according to the author of the passage?

A．The sequence of the film is reasonably smooth in itself.

B．The film has many challenges from beginning to end.

C．The film is confusing at the beginning but clearer later.

D．The film is filed with the hearings in its court scenes.

According to the passage, what was the percentage of American adults doing regular physical exercises two years ago?

A．About 70%.

B．Nearly 60%.

C．Almost 50%.

D．More than 12%.

SECTION B PASSAGES

Directions: In this section, you will hear several passages. Listen to the passages carefully and then answer the questions that follow.

听力原文： India is the land of festivals. Diwali is the Festival of Light and is celebrated with fervour and gaiety throughout the country to ward off the darkness and welcome light into everyone's lives. A four-day celebration marks the festival, the first day of which, "Naraka Chaturdasi" commemorates the vanquishing of the immensely powerful demon Naraka by Lord Krishna and his wife Satyabhama. The second day is "Amavasya" when prayers are offered to the goddess of prosperity, Lakshmi, for it is believed that on this day Lakshmi is in her most benevolent mood and is ready to fulfill the wishes of her devotees. Indians queue up for hours to pay homage at the Lakshmi temples on Amavasya. The third day is "Kartika Shudda Padyami" but is of comparatively minor relevance. The fourth day is referred to as "Yama Dvitiya" and on this day brothers are invited to their sisters' homes. In north India it is also celebrated as the return of Rama from 14 years in exile after killing the wicked King Ravan. To commemorate his return to his homeland, Ayodhya, his subjects illuminated the kingdom & burst crackers. The city streets are festooned with tinsel and fairy lights, and excitement fills the air.

What is this passage about?

A．An Indian festival.

B．An Indian ceremony.

C．An Indian wedding.

D．An Indian goddess.

Where in the passage does the author suggest a possible reason for Whitney's lifelong commitment to art?

A．The first paragraph.

B．The second paragraph.

C．The third paragraph.

D．The fifth paragraph.

In the passage, the author mentions all these things EXCEPT .

A．bad traffic condition

B．lack of security

C．pollution caused by air-conditioners

D．high cost of living

If adults liked to read books that were exceedingly difficult, they' d all be reading Proust. Most don' t.

So why, reading experts ask, do schools expect children to read — and love to read — when they are given material that is frequently too hard for them?

Science and social studies textbooks arc at least a grade above the reading levels of many students, experts say, and in some suburban and urban school systems, reading lists can include books hard for some adults to tackle.

Toni Morrison's award-winning novel "Beloved," about a former slave' s decision to kill her child rather than see her enslaved, is on some middle schools' lists for kids to read unassisted. And elementary schools sometimes ask students to read books such as "The Bridge to Terabithia," with themes about death and gender roles that librarians say are better suited for older children.

To be sure, pushing some students to challenge themselves is important, educators say. But there are points where kids read books before they can truly comprehend them and then lose the beauty of the work.

"Teachers studied ' The Great Gatsby' in college and then want to teach that book because they have smart things to say about it, and they teach it in high school," Catkins said. "Then schools want to get their middle school kids ready for high school so they teach them ' The Catcher in the Rye.' It' s a whole cultural thing."

In large part, he Richard Allington, a leading researcher on reading instruction and a professor of reading education at the University of Tennessee, blames inappropriately chosen books for students' reading woes, especially in school systems where large percentages of children read below grade level. The average fifth-grade student in Detroit and Baltimore, for example, reads at a third-grade level, he said, but schools still give them fifth-grade core reading and social studies texts.

That, he said, crushes a child' s motivation.

"If you made me education magician and I had one thing that l could pull off, it would be that every kid in this country had a desk full of books that they could actually read accurately, fluently, with comprehension," he said.

Soft Sinozich, a seventh-grader in the Humanities and Communications Magnet Program at Eastern Middle School in Montgomery County, said she would like to be assigned books that speak to her.

In sixth-grade English, "graphic novels [were] excluded, which annoyed many of us," said Sofi, who is partial to Japanese comics called manga because she finds the style. beautiful and the stories well done.

Many teachers exclude graphic novels and comics from reading lists, even though a graphic novel was nominated for the National Book Award this year. And Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has said he learned to read through comics after his schoolmaster father disregarded others who said they would lead to no good.

So should kids read Shakespeare or the comics? Graphic novels or "To Kill a Mockingbird"? Reading experts say they should read everything — when they are ready to understand what they are reading.

The novel "Beloved" of Toni Morrison is cited as an example to show that this book is —. for children to read.

A．easy

B．difficult

C．suitable

D．bad