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among those with no national ID card. However, some of the countries have ID cards for particular uses. For example, Australia and the United States use a driving licence (驾照) to identify people.
Identity cards are introduced for a variety of reasons. Race, politics and religion were often at the heart of older ID systems. In recent years, though, ID cards have been linked to national information databases, which form the basis of how a government manages a country.
The US, Britain and some other countries are considering a national ID system as a way of preventing possible terrorist attacks.
However, such plans have been .met with fierce (猛烈的) resistance by those who believe identity cards work against human rights and individual privacy (个人隐私) .
\cards make us suspects (可疑人员), not citizens,\said UK human rights group Liberty.
63. Which of the following is NOT true according to the article? A. Only those Chinese citizens over 16 can have an ID card.
B. The former Chinese ID card was plastic and the new one will be an electronic one.
C. The new Chinese ID card will be used by 2005.
D. The new Chinese ID card was introduced 17 years ago.
64. The information shown on an ID card of different countries ________.
A. is similar B. is the same
C. has nothing in common D. has something in common and something different
65. _________ use a driving licence to identify people.
A. Australia and the United States B. Canada and the United States C. Australia and New Zealand D. Sweden and Britain 66. What is the best title of the article?
A. An ID card, a good way to identify terrorists B. An ID card, a useful way to identify people
C. An ID card can be used to show how a government manages a country D. New cards will keep your details safe
D
In a few years, you might be able to speak Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French, and English -- and all at the same time. This sounds incredible, but Alex Waibel, a computer science professor at US' s Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Germany' s University of Karlsruhe, announced last week that it may soon be reality. He and his team have invented software and hardware that could make it far easier for people who speak different languages to understand each other.
One application, called Lecture Translation, can easily translate a speech from one language into another. Current translation technologies typically limit speakers to certain topics or a limited vocabulary. Users also have to be trained how to use the programme.
Another prototype (雏形机) can send translations of a speech to different listeners depending on what language they speak. \
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translator right next to you but without disturbing the person next to you,\said.
Prefer to read? So-called Translation Glasses transcribe (转录) the translations on a tiny liquid-crystal(液晶) display (LCD) screen.
Then there' s the Muscle Translator. Electrodes (电极) capture the electrical signals from facial muscle movements made naturally when a person is mouthing words. The signals are then translated into speech. The electrodes could be replaced with wireless chips implanted (植入) in a person' s face, according to researchers.
During a demonstration (演示) held last Thursday in CMU' s Pittsburgh campus, a Chinese student named Stan Jou had 11 tiny electrodes attached to the muscles of his cheeks, neck and throat. Then he mouthed -- without speaking aloud -- a few words in Mandarin(普通话) to the audience. A few seconds later, the phrase was displayed on a computer screen and spoken out by the computer in English and Spanish: \introduce our new prototype\
This particular gadget (器械), when fully developed, might allow anyone to speak in any number of languages or, as Waibel put it, \language\bridges for cross-cultural exchanges that are becoming more common in the world,\Waibel said.
With spontaneous (自发的) translators, foreign drivers in Germany could listen to traffic warnings on the radio, tourists in China could read all the signs and talk with local people, and leaders of different countries could have secret talks without any interpreters there.
67. What does the underlined word \
A. 同时的 B. 高效的 C. 昂贵的 D. 多功能的 68. What kind of prototype did the Chinese student named Stan Jou try?
A. Lecture Translation. B. Translation Glasses. C. Muscle Translator. D. We don' t know.
69. What is the purpose of inventing the translators?
A. To help students to learn English. B. To help people to watch foreign TV programs.
C. To help people travel in foreign countries. D. To promote cultural exchanges between countries.
70. What is the best title of this text?
A. Speak different languages at the same time? B. Flow to learn to speak foreign languages?
C. New ways to learn foreign languages D. You' re welcome to learn foreign languages
E
Venus is known as the Earth’ “twin” because the planets are so like each other in size. The diameter (直径) of Venus is about 7,520 miles (12,100km), about 400 miles (644km) smaller than that of the earth. No other planet comes closer to the earth than Venus. At its nearest approach it is about 25,000,000 miles (402,000,000km) away.
As seen from the earth, Venus is the first planet or star that can be seen in
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the western sky in the evening. At other times, it is the last planet or star that can be seen in the eastern sky in the morning. When Venus is near its brightest point, it can be seen in the daylight. Early astronomers called the object that appeared in the evening Hesperus, and Phosphorus in the morning. Later they realized these two objects were the same planet. They named it Venus in honor of the Roman goddess of love and beauty. 71. Traveling around Venus in a straight way, you would have a long trip of about_______ miles.
A. 24,896 B. 23,613 B. 37,994 D. 25,000,000 72. Which of the following is NOT a fact about Venus? A. It’s the nearest neighboring planet of the earth. B. It used to be called Phosphorus and Hesperus.
C. It’s usually 25,000,000 miles away from the earth.
D. It can sometimes be seen together with the sun in the sky. 73. Venus is called the earth’s “twin” because ________.
A. it’s almost as big as the earth B. it’s the nearest to the earth C. they are both planets D. they are of the same shape 74. The passage shows that _______.
A. Venus is always the last to appear in the sky in the evening B. Venus is sometimes the last to appear in the sky in the morning. C. The diameter of the earth is nearly eight thousand miles.
D. Venus is sometimes the last to disappear in the western sky in the morning. 75. The best title for the passage might be ________.
A. The Size of Venus B. Venus and the Earth C. Venus---the Earth’s “twin” D. The Nearest Neighbor
第II卷（共45分）
第一节 阅读表达（共5小题；每小题3分，满分15分）
As the college entrance exam draws near, many Senior 3 students begin to feel
worried. . Your score won’t have the final say in your future career, according to a recent survey.
China’s first report that is about lives of the top students getting the highest
score on past national college entrance exams came out last Monday. It finds that not all of them have become winners in college and career.
“Most of the successful career men weren’t the best of their classes,” said
the report. “However, the most important thing is that they should have creativity and the courage for exploration.”
The National College Entrance Exam was first held in 1977. Thirty years later,
the report is expected to help Senior 3 students to decide on their university choices rationally (理性地). A group of experts spent eight months covering every part of China except Tibet, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and researching into the lives of
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the top students.
They found that among all the 560 top scorers from 1999 – 2006, girls are leading
boys with a narrow majority, accounting for about 50.27 percent. They have a bigger majority in the number of art majors, at 63 percent. But among those science majors, boys take the lead with 64.78 percent.
However, experts are worried by the fact that the majors the top scorers chose
are very limited. Four out of five top students went to popular majors, like economic management and computer science. But other majors closely related to social development, like medicine and astronomy, failed to attract any of the very best. “Most of the students’ choices were based on a desire for fame and wealth, instead of their interest in the subject. That would slim their chances for career success, as well as undermine (破坏) the hopes of our country,” said Cai Yanhou, a professor with Central South University.
76．What is the best title of the passage? (within 10 words)
____________________________________________________________________ 77．Which sentence in the passage is the closest in meaning to the following one?
The majority of the students chose their major according to whether it could help them get a higher social status, regardless of whether they loved it or not.
____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ 78．Fill in the blank in the first paragraph with a proper sentence. (within10 words)
____________________________________________________________________ 79. What advice is implied on how to choose one’s major in college in the last two paragraphs? (within 20 words)
____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ 80．Translate the underlined sentence in the fifth paragraph into Chinese.
__ __________________________________________________________________ 第二节 书面表达 （满分30分）
人们完成工作的方式通常有两种：独立完成与合作完成。两种方式各有特点。请你以“working Individually or Working in a Team “为题，按照以下要点写一篇英语短文：
1．独立完成：自行安排、自己解决问题 2．合作完成：一起讨论、相互学习
3．我喜欢的方式及理由. 注意：词数120--150，文章的题目和开头已给出（不
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Working Individually or Working in a Team
There are basically two ways to get work done.
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21—25 BABAD 26—30 DBCCB 31—35 DBACC
36—40 ABCDA 41—45 BCDCA 46—50 DADCA 51—55 BABCA 56—60 CDAAC 61—65 DADDA 66—70 BACDA 71-75 BCACC 76. Lives after the big tests
Lives after the national college entrance exams What has become of the top scorers? Lessons from the top scorers.
77. Most of the students’ choices were based on a desire for fame and wealth, instead of their interest in the subject.
78. But please take it easy. Well, you don’t have to worry so much.
79. One should base the choice on the society’s needs as well as one’s own interest. 80. 他们发现在1999-2006年间的560名高分考生中，女生人数略领先于男生，约占50.28%. Writing
Working Individually or Working in a Team
There are basically two ways to get work done. They are working individually and working in a team. Each of them has its own advantages and disadvantages. On one hand, working individually can give the individuals a convenience to arrange and solve the problems. It can offer them the space to think by themselves. Only in this way, can they develop their creative ability. On the other hand, working in a team provides the individuals with the chance to discuss and study together. During the progress, they help each other so this can improve their communication and co-operative ability.
To some degree, choosing which way to work partly depends on the individual’s characters. I think working in a team is suitable for me, because I believe “two heads are better than one” which leads to our work more efficient.
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