C. can bedivided into different components D. are productive for some talented animals
75. Which of the statements can be concludedfrom the passage?
A. Some animals can try to use body languages as communication methods. B. Gestures, the starting point for language, are considered uniquely human.
C. Some animals such as apes and monkeys share some common gestures codes. D. When gestures are misunderstood, apes will often try to express in a new way. 76. What can we learn from the experiment by Cartmill and Byrne?
A. Apes can use language to communicate with the help of humans.
B. Repeating and exaggerating gestures is vital in language communication. C. Some animals can learn to express and communicate through some trials. D. The preferred food stimulates some animals to use language to communicate. 77. What is probably the best title of the passage?
A. Language involves gestures! B. Animals language—gestures! C. So you think humans are unique?
D. The similarity between humans and apes. Section C
Directions: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.
Gold
India is the world’s largest market for gold jewellery. In much of Asia, the Middle East and India, around two-thirds of the jewellery purchased is used as a way of saving money as well as being worn as a decorative item. The use of jewellery as a way of saving money is often important in rural areas where finding a bank is difficult or even impossible. People buy gold because its value stays strong even when the value of money goes down.
Gold jewellery has often been a woman’s only valuable possession, and in some families this is still true. A woman’s gold can therefore be her only protection against personal misfortune. Today, all around the world, sales of gold jewellery have grown by over 20% per year, because everyone is confident that gold won’t lose its value. Demand for gold is so high that gold mines cannot supply enough.
Gold’s function as a decoration, as jewellery, has been evident for thousands of years. Since the earliest times, the beauty and richness of gold, along with the fact that it does not change its colour, has meant that it has always been the favourite metal of jewellers. The earliest gold jewellery dates from the Sumerian civilisation that was at its most powerful around 6,000 years ago. In the Middle Ages, ancient people attempted to make gold from other metals. They used gold in medicines designed to fight old age and prolong life.
Gold also performs important functions in many aspects of everyday life. It does not react when it comes into contact with other substances and this, along with other unique properties, makes it useful in medicine and many other areas that we consider essential to our modern lives.
During heart surgery, gold-covered ―stent‖ are put into blocked arteries to help the flow of blood. These gadgets need to be carefully positioned. Gold is ideal for this because it shows up clearly on X-rays and can easily be located by doctors. A pacemaker, a device inserted in the body to keep the heartbeat regular, also contains gold. Gold is used in all of these applications because
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of its high level of reliability. Gold also helps doctors to deliver precise doses of powerful drugs to the parts of the body where they are required.
Gold has many other applications in modern life as it conducts electricity very efficiently. The standard touch-tone telephone contains 33 contacts made from gold. Air-bag systems fitted in more than 30 million cars around the world rely on gold-coated electrical contacts. And every time you touch a key on your computer it strikes a gold circuit that sends your command to the computer’s microprocessor. In fact, you have probably never realised how much gold there is in your everyday life.
(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN TEN WORDS.) 78. Compared with money, people prefers gold because of __________.
79. Gold were used in medicines because ancient people believed it could __________. 80. Why can gold be used in pacemaker?
81. What makes the application of gold in electronic products possible?
第II卷 (共47分)
I. Translation
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 1、现在没有网络，我们就无法便捷地与国外友人保持联系。(impossible)
2、调查显示非洲孩子们梦想能获得干净的引用水、免费的教育以及平等的权利。(access) 3、毫无疑问，坚持努力不仅能使学生获得成功并且能让他们养成良好的习惯。(doubt) 4、他明年将实施的计划包括健身运动、参加考试和面试、出国留学以及去欧洲旅游。(carry) 5、直到他此次考试不及格，他才意识到词汇学习包括拼写单词以及学会正确的使用词汇表达自己的观点。(Not until…)
II. Guided Writing
Directions: Write an English composition in 120–150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
离开高考大约还有三个月的时间，同学们都在积极有效地开展复习工作。请你谈谈你最后阶段（3月—5月）的复习计划，以及制定该计划的思考或缘由。
写作内容必须包括以下两点：
（1）未来一段时间内具体的复习计划； （2）制定该计划的原因分析。
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