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用心 爱心 专心1 英语冲刺复习英语冲刺复习 英语精练 英语精练 4 4 A A When Jeanne Calment entered the world in 1875 telephones and automobiles still lay in the future Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso were not yet born The Eiffel Tower was 14 years from being built As a teenager she met Vincent Van Gogh near her home in Arles in the south of France He was very ugly ungracious 举止粗俗的 impolite sick I forgive him they called him loco 精神失常的 she recalled When she died last week at age 122 she was the world s eldest person There are others who claimed to the title but only Calment had the official documents to prove her age Each February 21 her birthday she would share the secrets of long life Some years it was a sense of humour others it was keeping busy God must have forgotten me she once explained The truth probably was that she had good genes her mother reportedly lived to be 86 and her father 94 Her life had its sadness she outlived her husband her only daughter and her grandson According to a friend she was imperturbableimperturbable If you can t do anything about it she reportedly said don t worry about it In her last years she was nearly blind and deaf but her health remained good She ate a few bars of chocolate each week and continued smoking until a few years ago when she could no longer light her own cigarettes She never lost her sense of humour On her 110th birthday she commented I ve only ever had one wrinkle and I m sitting on it Her longevity made her famous her spirit made her eternal 永恒的 41 Why does the author mention Albert Einstein Pablo Picasso and the Eiffel Tower A To show that Calment had seen famous people and things B To emphasize that Calment was born a long time ago C To indicate that Calment is just as famous D To admire the knowledge that Calment had 42 The author believed that Calment s longevity is mainly due to A a sense of humor B being kept busy C belief in God D good genes 43 The underlined word imperturbable means A calm B humorous C friendly D healthy 44 Toward the end of the story the author seems to be impressed by Callment s A spirit B religious belief C knowledge D longevity B B Simply by analyzing a drop of blood a doctor will be able to diagnose a birth defect or even cancer when it is in the early stage using new technology 用心 爱心 专心2 a material lighter but much stronger than steel can be produced These may sound like dreams at present But the dreams may soon come true as research findings in laboratories are being turned into products more rapidly in the new century according to experts participating in the fourth Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation APEC Technomart a technology exhibition and trade fair in Suzhou Most people think nano technology 纳米技术 is too far fetched to be real But in fact nano technology has been applied in a wide range of fields such as medicine It is coming into our daily life said Cheng Jiachong from a Hong Kong based nano technology firm Nano technology based on the nanometer the unit of which is a billionth of a meter enables scientists to have new concepts of disease diagnosis and treatment on a molecular 分子 and atomic scale Cheng said By using nanometer particles a doctor can separate the fetus cells 胚胎细 胞 from the blood of a pregnant woman to see if the development of the fetus is normal This method is also being used in the early diagnosis of cancer and heart disease he said One of the most significant impacts of nano technology is at the bio inorganic materials interface according to Greg Tegart executive advisor of the APEC Center for Technology Foresight By combining enzymes 酶 and silicon chips we can produce biosensors These could be implanted in humans or animals to monitor health and to deliver corrective doses 剂量 of drugs he told the participants a technology forum during the exhibition Nano technology could affect the production of nearly every man made object from automobiles tires and computer circuits 电路 to advanced medicines and tissue replacement and lead to the invention of objects yet to be imagined said David Minns a special advisor to the National Research Council of Canada It has been shown that carbon nano tubes are ten times as strong as steel with one sixth of the weight and nano scale systems have the potential to make supersonic transport cost effective and to increase computer efficiency by millions of times he said The experts agreed that the APEC technology exhibition and trade fair provided many chances for exchanges of innovative ideas and products 45 Realization of the dreams mentioned in the first paragraph will mainly base on A APEC B Chinese scientist C the APEC Center for Technology ForesightD Nano technology 46 The length of a nanometer equals to A 9 10 meter B 10 10 meter C 8 10 meter D 7 10 meter 47 We can imply from what David Minns said that A Nano technology could only be used to invent new objects 用心 爱心 专心3 B Nano technology could be widely used to produce or invent objects C Nano technology is a money consuming technology D Nano technology can not be used to improve the service of Internet 48 Compared to steel carbon nano tubes are A stronger and lighter B lighter but as strong C stronger but as lightD poor in quality C C Googlefight is a simple service available on the Internet which offers you the chance to compare two different items and see how many hits they get on the Google search engine The seemingly simple device has proved invaluable to users especially to help win arguments For example imagine that you and your friends are arguing about who are the most popular music or movie stars you can decide the argument by writing the names in the Googlefight boxes Let s say that you are arguing about Jackie Chan and Jet Li You will quickly discover that Jet Li is mentioned 16 million times on Google pages whereas Jackie Chan is mentioned a mere 12 million times In this unscientific way you can claim victory for one Star over another But teachers have come up with ways of using Googlefight which are much more useful from an academic point of view particularly when it comes to studying languages You can for example find out the frequency of two words with the same meaning and deduce 推断 from the answers which one is more common For example let s take the words buy and purchase which mean the same thing although buy is only a verb and purchase is both a verb and a noun It is immediately clear from Googlefight that buy is much more commonly used with a massive three and a half billion hits compared to only one billion occurrences for the more formal word But the real value of Googlefight to the language learner is in determining which is the more common of two phrases For example raining cats and dogs is an old fashioned English expression about the weather Do English speakers still use it Or are they more likely to say pouring down Googlefight suggests the latter Pouring down has 898 000 Google hits whereas raining cats and dogs only has 326 000 With phrases it s important to remember that you need to use quote marks to make the search more accurate For example if you type in the similar phrases look after and take care of without quote marks the second phrase seems to be more common but with quote marks the result is reversed 49 What is Googlefight A A fight between two people on Google B A way to make sure you win an argument C A website showing how many hits two different things have D A list of all the websites on Google 50 Language teachers find it useful because 用心 爱心 专心4 A there are a lot of words on Googlefight B it can tell them which of the two words with the same meaning appears more often C some words mean the same thing D common words have a billion hits 51 What must you remember to do if you are checking phrases by Googlefight A Make sure they mean be same thing B Make sure they are different C Remember to put quote marks round the phrase D Don t put quote marks round the phrase 52 Which statement is NOT true according to the passage A Googlefight is effective to determine the more common of two phrases B Googlefight is a scientific way to decide an argument C Quote marks can make the search more accurate D Googlefight is invaluable to help win arguments D D Celebrity 名人 has become one of the most important representatives of popular culture Fans used to be crazy about a specific film but now the public tends to base its consumption on the interest of celebrity attached to any given product Besides fashion magazines have almost abandoned the practice of putting models on the cover because they don t sell nearly as well as famous faces As a result celebrities have realized their unbelievably powerful market potential moving from advertising for others products to developing their own Celebrity clothing lines aren t a completely new phenomenon but in the past they were typically aimed at the ordinary consumers and limited to a few TV actresses Today they re started by first class stars whose products enjoy equal fame with some world top brands The most successful start ups have been those by celebrities with specific personal style As celebrities become more and more experienced at the market they expand their production scale rapidly covering almost all the products of daily life However for every success story there s a related warning tale of a celebrity who overvalued his consumer appeal No matter how famous the product s origins is if it fails to impress consumers with its own qualities it begins to resemble an exercise in self promotional marketing And once the initial 最初的 attention dies down consumer interest might fade loyalty returning to tried and true labels Today celebrities face ever more severe embarrassment The pop cultural circle might be bigger than ever but its rate of turnover has speeded up as well EachEach misstepmisstep threatensthreatens toto reducereduce a a celebrity scelebrity s shelfshelf life life and the same newspaper or magazine that once brought him fame has no problem picking him to pieces when the opportunity appears Still the ego s 自我的 potential for expansion is limitless Having already achieved great wealth and public 用心 爱心 专心5 recognition many celebrities see fashion as the next frontier to be conquered As the saying goes success and failure always go hand in hand Their success as designers might last only a short time but fashion like celebrity has always been temporary 53 Fashion magazines today A seldom put models on the cover B no longer put models on the cover C need not worry about celebrities market potential D judge the market potential of every celebrity correctly 54 A change in the consumer market can be found today that A price rather than brand name is more concerned B producers prefer models to celebrities for achievements C producers prefer TV actresses to film stars for advertisements D quality rather than the outside of products is more concerned 55 The underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 indicates that any wrong step will possibly A decrease the popularity of a celebrity and the sales of his products B damage the image of a celebrity in the eyes of the general public C cut short the artistic careen of a celebrity in show business D influence the price of a celebrity s products 56 The passage is mainly about A celebrity and personal style B celebrity and market potential C celebrity and fashion design D celebrity and clothing industry E E A study involving 8 500 teenagers from all social backgrounds found that most of them are ignorant when it comes to money The findings the first in a series of reports from NatWest that has started a five year research project into teenagers and money are particularly worrying as this generation of young people is likely to be burdened with greater debts than any before University tuition fees are currently capped at 3 000 annually but this will be reviewed next year and the Government is under enormous pressure toto raiseraise thethe ceilingceiling In the research the teenagers were presented with the terms of four different loans but 76 per cent failed to identify the cheapest The young people also predicted that they would be earning on average 31 000 by the age of 25 although the average salary for those aged 22 to 29 is just 17 815 The teenagers expected to be in debt when they finished university or training although half said that they assumed the debts would be less than 10 000 Average debts for graduates are 12 363 Stephen Moir head of community investment at the Royal Bank of Scotland Group which owns NatWest said The more exposed young people are to financial 用心 爱心 专心6 issues and the younger they become aware of them the more likely they are to become responsible forward planning adults who mana