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1. Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A , B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 27-47are based on the following passage.
　　The word conservation has a thrifty meaning. To conserve is to save and protect, to leave what we ourselves enjoy in such good condition that others may also share the enjoyment. Our forefathers had no idea that human population would increase faster than the supplies of raw materials; most of them, even until very recently, had the foolish idea that the treasures were "limitless" and "inexhaustible". Most of the citizens of earlier generations knew little or nothing about the complicated and delicate system that runs all through nature, and which means that, as in living body, an un- healthy condition of one part will sooner or later be harmful to all the others.
　　Fifty years ago nature study was not part of the school work; scientific forestry was a new idea; timber was still cheap because it c6uld be brought in any quantity from distant woodlands; soil destruction and fiver floods were not national problems; nobody had yet studied long-term climatic cycles in relation to proper land use; even the Word "conservation" had nothing of the meaning that it has of us today.
　　For the sake of ourselves and-those who will come after us, we must now set about repairing the mistakes of our forefathers. Conservation should, therefore, be made a part of everyone's daily life. To know about the water table in the ground is just as important to us as a knowledge of the basic arithmetic formulas. We need to know why all watersheds (流域) need the protection of plant life and why the running current of streams and rivers must be made to yield their full benefit to the soil before they finally escape to the sea. We need to be taught the duty of planting trees as well as of cutting them. We need to know the importance of big, mature trees, because living space for most of man's fellow creatures on this planet is figured not only. in square measure of surface but also in cubic volume above the earth. In brief, it should be our goal to restore as much of the original beauty of nature as we can.
According to the author, the greatest mistake of our forefathers was that_________
A．they had no idea of scientific forestry
B．they were not aware of the significance of .nature study
C．they had little or no sense of environmental protection
D．they had no idea of how to make good use of raw materials
2. 根据以下资料，回答47-12题。


请在第_____处填上正确答案。

3. 请在(43)处填写上答案.
4. 根据以下资料回答17-2题


It is implied in the passage that a competent child __________.

5. The $11 billion self-help industry is built on the idea that you should turn negative thoughts like "I never do anything right" into positive ones like "I can succeed." But was positive thinking advocate Norman Vincent Peale right? Is there power in positive thinking?
Researchers in Canada just published a study in the journal Psychological Science that says trying to get people to think more positively can actually have the opposite effect: it can simply highlight how unhappy they are.
The study's authors, Joanne Wood and John Lee of the University of Waterloo and Elaine Perunovic of the University of New Brunswick, begin by citing older research showing that when people get feedback which they believe is overly positive, they actually feel worse, not better. If you tell your dim friend that he has the potential of an Einstein, you're just underlining his faults. In one 1990s experiment, a team including psychologist Joel Cooper of Princeton asked participants to write essays opposing funding for the disabled. When the essayists were later praised for their sympathy, they felt even worse about what they had written.
In this experiment, Wood, Lee and Perunovic measured 68 students' self-esteem. The participants were then asked to write down their thoughts and feelings for four minutes. Every 15 seconds, one group of students heard a bell. When it rang, they were supposed to tell themselves, "I am lovable."
Those with low self-esteem didn't feel better after the forced self-affirmation. In fact, their moods turned significantly darker than those of members of the control group, who weren't urged to think positive thoughts.
The paper provides support for newer forms of psychotherapy (心理治疗) that urge people to accept their negative thoughts and feelings rather than fight them. In the fighting, we not only often fail but can make things worse. Meditation (静思) techniques, in contrast, can teach people to put their shortcomings into a larger, more realistic perspective. Call it the power of negative thinking.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。What do we learn from the first paragraph about the self-help industry?
A．It was established by Norman Vincent Peal
B．It is based on the concept of positive thinkin
C．It is a highly profitable industr
D．It has yielded positive result
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6. Directions;In this part，you will have l5 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on answer Sheet1．
For questions 2-8，mark
　　Y(for Yes) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;
　　N(for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;
　　NG(for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage．
For questions 9-11，complete the sentences with the information given in the passage．
　　Foreign adoptions
　　Madonna，as you might have hard，is in the process of adopting a baby from Malawi．The one—year—old boy named David was flown last month to London．The American pop music star and her husband have a home there．Madonna is married to a film director Guy Ritchie and is the biological mother of two children．
　　Madonna recently gave millions of dollars to support efforts to help orphans(孤儿)in Mala wi．The southern African country is one of the poorest nations in the world．
　　Madonna says she wants to give David a better life．But some people citicized her for adop ting a child whose father is still alive，even if the father did agree to it．And some child psychologists said children do best if they are well cared for in their own homeland．
　　The adoption is not yet final．The Lilongwe High court gave Madonna and her husband temporary custody of David on October l2th．The court order is for eighteen months．During that period a social worker will report on how the boy is being cared for．
　　A committee of 67 human rights groups in Malawi argued that adoption laws there normally ban international adoptions．The committee has brought a legal action to make sure if Madonna received special treatment．
　　Madonna says she did not．But she has supporters．They include Jane Aronson，an influential expert on adoptions and had of the World Orphans Foundation．She says Madonna is offering David a new life.
　　More than two thirds of people in the United States who adopt .children from other countries are not famous．They are people like Miriam and John Baxter of Bethesda, Maryland. The Baxters have a biological daughter named Olivia. Olivia was almost eight when her new brother, Matthew,arrived. The Baxters adopted Matthew from an orphanage (孤儿院) in South Korea.
　　They had thought about adopting a baby from China. But their plans changed five years ago after the World Trade Center attack in New York. A nearby office where they needed to get a document to satisfy Chinese adoption requirements was closed temporarily.
　　Waiting for the office to re-open would have delayed the process another month. And .the Baxters already faced a year of waiting,
　　Then they learned that it might be faster to try to adopt a child from South Korea. Miriam Baxter has a brother and a sister who were adopted from there. And, in her words, "we wanted the
child so much, we just could not wait any longer. "
　　There are many ol
7. She shut the window lest__________(外面的噪声会打扰她儿子睡觉)．
8. What does the author say about excessive Internet use?
A．It has become virtually inevitable.
B．It has been somewhat exaggerated.
C．People haven't yet reached agreement on its definition.
D．People should be warned of its harmful consequences.
9. When he found nothing was left in the refrigerator，he __________ (突然陷入绝望之中)．
写作
10. Directions：For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled How Should Parents Help Children to Be Independent? You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below.
1. 目前不少父母为孩子包办一切
2. 为了让孩子独立, 父母应该……
How Should Parents Help Children to Be Independent?