get sick from it. “This is excellent science with biological and virological importance. If we understood how the chimp has dealt with this infection over time, that could have implications for human medicines, ” said Dr. Kevin DeCock, an AIDS expert at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. While chimps have long been suspected as the source, “there have been a lot of loose ends that made people uncomfortable drawing that conclusion,” said Dr. Bea- trice Hahn.
Whatever its origins, HIV(human immunodeficiency virus) is a recent affliction of people. Last year, Dr. David Ho and others from the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center at Rockefeller University presented evidence that the virus probably first infected humans in the 1940s and early ’50s.
This year Hahn made the case that this event almost certainly occurred in west equatorial Africa when someone caught the virus from a chimp, perhaps after killing the animals for food.
Hahn’s team had proved the connection between the human and chimp strains by analyzing the blood and frozen tissue samples from a 26-year-old chimp named Marilyn which died during childbirth at a US primate center in 1984. “This is an important finding with significant potential”, said Anthony Fauci, a researcher at the US National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, which helped the study. The earliest trace of the AIDS virus dates back to 1959. The blood sample it originated in was collected in central West Africa.
60．Where did the AIDS virus come from?
A. Chimps in Africa.
C. Monkeys in Africa.
61．Which of the following is NOT TRUE?
B. Chimps in America. D. Monkeys in America.
A. The chimps will die if they are infected with AIDS.
B. The AIDS virus has spread on at least three separate occasions from chimpanzees to people in Africa. C. Chimps have probably carried the virus for hundreds of thousands of years.
D. People caught the virus from a chimp perhaps have ever killed the animals for food. 62．When did humans begin to be infected by AIDS?
A. In the 1950s and early ’60s. C. In the 1940s and early ’50s.
C
Surgery that can improve the way a person looks is becoming more and more popular in the United States. This kind of surgery is called cosmetic surgery, and both men and women are turning to this treatment as a way of keeping their appearance young as well as keeping competitive in their jobs. Men especially are beginning to turn to facelifts, liposuction to help them look younger. As companies downsize and move younger employees into higher positions, older employees in their late forties and early fifties feel the need to look and act younger in order to stay competitive. A younger look through cosmetic surgery may give an older employee a few more years on the job. These operations are not without dangers, however.
One young woman had an eye operation to get rid of the bags under her eyes. She described her experience as terrible. She said, “When he started cutting, I was fully awake. Even though he’d given me an injection near my eyes, I saw everything.” She went on to explain, “I knew I had to keep still because of what he was doing. He was scraping away fat underneath my eyes. It took about ten minutes. After he finished, I felt I couldn’t walk. I was so faint.” Her troubles did not end after the operation. For two weeks, her eyes were swollen and almost completely closed, and even dark glasses could not hide the side effects of the operation.
B. In the 1950s. D. In the 1930s.
Liposuction, taking fat out of the body, is probably the most popular cosmetic operation in the United States. It seems simple enough. First, a small cut is made over the place where the patient wants the fat removed. Next, a small pipe is put into the cut. A machine like a vacuum cleaner is then turned on, and the fat is sucked right out of the body. However, as one doctor explained, some problems can happen after the operation. He warned, “Irregular lumps and loose skin can result from this operation. If it is not evenly done, liposuction can produce a very lumpy result.” Patients often must have more liposuction to correct the problem.
63. The main idea of the first paragraph is that _________.
A. some people want to have cosmetic surgery in order to keep their jobs B. there are many different kinds of cosmetic surgery C. cosmetic surgery can be dangerous
D. cosmetic surgery is expensive
64. Why do some men want to have cosmetic surgery?
A. They want to look younger
B. They want to hide their age
C. They want to keep their jobs D. all of the above 65. What happens during the liposuction procedure?
A. Fat is taken out of the body. B. Artificial fat is put into the body. C. A patient gets lumpy results. D. A patient wears dark glasses.
66. The last sentence of the passage suggests that ________.
A. a bad liposuction procedure if expensive B. many people want liposuction
C. a bad liposuction procedure can be fixed
D. a bad liposuction procedure cannot be fixed
D
Every day is filled with danger. You wake in the morning, rush to the window and take a deep breath. Don’t! Hasn’t anyone told you about the air being polluted with lead from petrol? Next you go to the bathroom. After touching the lavatory handle, your hands are covered in bacteria, which even a good wash won’t entirely remove. You sigh, and get dressed. Good heavens! Didn't you realize that all that nylon won’t let your skin breathe?
With a rash beginning to appear on your skin, you make your way to the kitchen for breakfast. Eating must be good for you, mustn’t it? Of course it is, if you don’t have tea or coffee, which is bad for your heart, or a good-fashioned English fry-up, which will fill your stomach with fat.
Depressed, not to mention hungry, you go to clean your teeth. Put down that nylon toothbrush at once! It will ruin your gums. Do you have the courage to weigh yourself? Horrors! You’re at least half a stone overweight, which is sure to help send you to an early grave(tomb).
Hesitating, you make your way to the car, knowing that (according to statistics) there’s a good chance that either you or one of your nearest and dearest will be involved in an accident sometime during your life. After a journey, you reach work.
Filled with relief（如释重负）you get into the lift. Get out at once and race up those stairs, unless you want a heart attack tomorrow.
Panting, you reach the office, where you fall into a chair. The cleaner has just left, leaving some kind of
fragrance in the air. You breathe deeply, enjoying the sweet fragrance. Danger! Breathing in the substance will ruin your lungs (not to mention our atmosphere, if we are to believe the experts).
With trembling hands you light a cigarette to calm your nerves. A what? How dare you?
At last lunch-time comes. You join your mates in the local for a sandwich. White bread. Eh? A low-fibre diet is no good at all. You have “just one more drink”, which helps you on your way to liver failure（肝病）, and you return to the coffee. You spend the afternoon fighting a battle with high blood pressure and give a sigh of relief as 5:30 arrives.
When you drive home, you look in the driving mirror and see a large vein throbbing, up and down on your forehead. Your suddenly remembering of that article reach home, you crawl up the path and fall into your wife’s protective arms. She won’t last much longer, of course. She’s taken in a large amount of washing powder, and a great number of chemicals from some sprays.
But do not fear, civilization is here. Are we really that much happier in our modern technological world with all its newly-found knowledge than our ancestors who knew nothing of these things? I’m sure. 67. Which of the following is not mentioned in the text?
A. Breathing the air is dangerous because it is polluted with lead. B. Nylon toothbrushes are bad for your gums. C. White bread does not contain sufficient fibres. D. Taking a bus will be safe for you. 68. The writer is _________.
A. funny about what he says to make a point
B. right to be worried about what he says
C. much too worried about the dangers of the modern life
D. a doctor who is trying to persuade people to pay much attention to their lives 69. The author of the passage comes to a conclusion that _________.
A. Life is too risky to be worth living.
B. Life is risky but modern man is much happier than before. C. Every day is full of risks and so life is a suffering. D. There is danger in everything we do 70. What is the best title of the text?
A. Life is hard
C. Modern Life
B. Life with risks D. A day of a person
E
Treasure hunts have excited people's imagination for hundreds of years both in real life and in books such as Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. Kit Williams, a modern writer, had the idea of combining the real excitement of a treasure hunt with clues found in a book when he wrote a children's story, Masquerade, in 1979. The book was about a hare, and a month before it came out Williams buried a gold
hare in a park in Bedfordshire. The book contained a large number of clues to help readers find the hare, but Williams put in a lot of \”, or false clues, to mislead them.
Ken Roberts, the man who found the hare, had been looking for it for nearly two yeas. Although he had been searching in the wrong area most of the time, he found it by logic(逻辑), not by luck. His success came from the fact that he had gained an important clue at the start. He had realized that the words: \Eight\
Henry Ⅶ’s six wives. Even here, however, Williams had succeeded in misleading him. Ken knew that Katherine of Aragon had died at Kimbolton in Cambridgeshire in 1536 and thought that Williams had buried e hare there. He had been digging there for over a year before a new idea occurred to him. He found out that Kit Williams had spent his childhood near Ampthill, in Bedfordshire, and thought that he must have buried the hare in a place he knew well, but he still could not see e connection with Katherine of Aragon, until one day he came across two stone crosses in Ampthill Park and learnt that they had been built in her honor in 1773.
Even then his search had not come to an end. It was only after he had spent several nights digging around the cross that he decided to write to Kit Williams to find out if he was wasting his time there. Williams encouraged him to continue, and on February 24th, 1982, he found the treasure. It was worth ￡3000 in the beginning, but the excitement it had caused since its burial made it much more valuable. 71. The underlined word \A. red herrings B. treasure hunts C. Henry Ⅶ's six wives D. readers of Masquerade 72. What is the most important clue in the story to help Ken Roberts find the hare? A. Two stone crosses in Ampthill. B. Stevenson's Treasure Island.
C. Katherine of Aragon. D. Williams' hometown.
73. The stone crosses in Ampthill were built _________. A. to tell about what happened in 1773 B. to show respect for Henry Ⅷ's first wife C. to serve as a roadsign in Ampthill Park D. to inform people where the gold hare was
74. Which of the following describes Roberts' logic in searching for the hare? a. Henry Ⅷ's six wives.
b. Katherine's burial place at Kimbolton c. Williams' childhood in Ampthill d. Katherine of Aragon
e. stone crosses in Ampthill Park A. a--b--c -e--d.
B. d--b--c---e--a.
C. a---d—b-- c- -e. D. b--a--e--c--d. 75. What is the subject discussed in the text? A. An exciting historical event. C. The attraction of Masquerade.
B. A modern treasure hunt.
D. The importance of logical thinking.
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his machine bought in our shop would bring him any trouble . 85----------------
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某英文报“读者来信”专栏正在就“高三学生家是否应该为孩子购置电脑”这一话题开展讨论。有赞同的，也有反对的。请你向该报编辑写一封英文信，发表你自己的观点。信的开头(有两种，可任选一种)已为你写好。 注意：
1.你不必根据上面的提示逐条进行写作。可自由发挥。 2.词数:100词左右。 Dear editor,
I'm a student of Senior Three. I think ???
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I'm a student of Senior Three. I think my parents should buy me a computer now. As we know, computers have been of great use and will be used more and more in our daily life. Besides, computers arc also helpful in our English learning. There are piles of learning software we can use. I don't see anything wrong for us to spend some time playing games. After all, we need something to enjoy ourselves. One more word, with computers we can get more information and get more knowledge. Don't you agree?
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I'm a student of Senior Three. 1 don't think my parents should buy me a computer now. Those who have computers in my class are spending too much time on computer games. In my opinion there are many other ways to enjoy myself than playing computer games. If we don't put our hearts into our work, we might fail in the entrance examinations. Besides, if you get a computer and don 't make full use of it, it's just a waste of money. So I insist they not buy me a computer now. Don't you agree?
A reader