Part I Reading Comprehension (30%)
26、请回答26-40题
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:
Fire can help people in many ways. But it can be very dangerous. Fire can heat water, warm houses, give light and cook. But fire can bum things, too. It can bum trees, houses, animals or people. Sometimes big fires can bum forests.
Nobody knows for sure how people began to use fire. But there are many interesting stories about the first time a man or a woman started a fire. One story from Australia tells about a man very, very long time ago. He went up to the sun by a rope (绳子) and brought fire down.
Today people know how to make a fire with matches (火柴) . Children sometimes like toplay with them. But matches can be very dangerous. One match can bum a piece of paper and then it might burn a house. A small fire can become a big fire very fast. Fire kills many people every year. So you must be careful with matches. You should also learn to put out fires. (80) Fires need oxygen(氧气). 　　　　Without oxygen they will die. Cover a fire with water, sand, or sometimes with your coat. This keeps the air away from a fire and kills it. Be careful with fire, and it will helpyou. Be careless with fire, and it will burn you.
How did people begin to use fire?
A．Not everybody knows how people began to use fire.
B．Nobody knows how to make a fire.
C．It is an Australian who started a fire.
D．We are not sure how people began to use fire.


27、 Children mustn' t play with matches because
A．matches burn paper
B．it isn' t interesting
C．they can be dangerous
D．they can burn a house


28、
When you are going to put out a fire, you
A．must be careful
B．should keep air away from it
C．must know it is dangerous
D．should cover it with water


29、
We must be careful with fire, or it
A．will die
B．will warm our houses
C．might burn us
D．won' t help us


30、
Which of the following is the main idea of this passage?
A．Fire can help people in many ways.
B．Fire can be both helpful and dangerous.
C．Fire can burn things and people.
D．We must be careful with matches.

31、请回答31-45题
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:
Increasingly, over the past ten years, people--especially young people--have become aware of the need to change their eating habits, because much of the food they eat, particularly processed food, is not good for the health. Consequently, there has been a growing interest in natural foods. Foods which do not contain chemical additives (添加剂) and which have not been affected by chemical fertilizers, widely used in farming today.
(79) Natural foods, for example, are vegetables, fruit and grain which have been grown insoil that is rich in organic (有机的) matter. In simple terms, this means that the soil has been nourished by unused vegetable matter, which provides it with essential vitamins and minerals. This in itself is a natural process compared with the use of chemicals and fertilizers, the main purpose of which is to increase the amount--but not the quality--of foods grown in commercial farming areas.
Natural foods also include animals which have been allowed to feed and move freely in healthy pastures(牧场). Compare this with what happens in the mass production of poultry: there are farms, for example, where thousands of chickens live crowded together in one building and are fed on food which is little better than rubbish. Chickens kept in this way are not only tasteless as food, they also lay eggs which lack important vitamins.
There are other aspects of healthy eating which are now receiving increasing attention from experts on diet. Take, for example, the question of sugar. This is actually a non-essential food! Al-though a natural alternative, such as honey, can be used to sweeten food if it is necessary, we can in fact do without it. It is not that sugar is harmful in itself. But it does seem to be addictive: the quantity we use has grown steadily over the last two centuries and in Britain today each person consumes an average of 200 pounds a year ! Yet all it does is to provide us with energy, in the form of calories. There are no vitamins in it, no minerals and no fiber.
(80) It is significant that nowadays fiber is considered to be an important part of a healthy diet. In white bread, for example, the fiber has been removed. But it is present in unrefined flourand of course in vegetables. It is interesting to note that in countries where the national diet contains large quantities of unrefined flour and vegetables, certain diseases are comparatively rare.
Hence the emphasis is placed on the eating of whole meal bread and more vegetables by modern experts on "healthy eating".

People have become more interested in natural foods because _______
A．they are more health conscious
B．they want to taste all kinds of foods
C．natural foods are more delicious than processed foods
D．they want to return to nature


32、
Soil that is rich in organic matters_______
A．has had chemicals and fertilizers added to it
B．contains vegetable matter that has not been consumed
C．has been nourished by fertilizers
D．already contains large quantities of vitamins and minerals


33、 Chickens raised in poultry farms are all of the following EXCEPT that_______
A．they are fed on food which is little better than garbage
B．they live in very crowded condition
C．the eggs they lay lack vitamins
D．they are allowed to move about and eat freely


34、
According to the passage,_______
A．people need sugar to give them energy
B．sugar is bad for the health
C．the use of sugar is habit forming
D．sugar only sweetens food, but provides us with nothing useful


35、
The best title for this passage is_______
A．People' s Growing Interest in Natural Foods
B．Natural Foods and Healthy Diet
C．Harmful Effects of Sugar
D．The Importance of Fiber in Foods

36、请回答36-50题
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:
In sport the sexes are separate. (76) Women and men do not run or swim in the same races. Women are less strong than men. That at least is what people say. Women are called" the weaker
sex" ,or, if men want to please them, "the fair sex". But boys and girls are taught together at schools and universities. There are women who are famous Prime Ministers, scientists and writers. And women live longer than men. A European woman can expect to live until the age of 74, a man only until he is 68. Are women' s bodies really weaker?
The fastest men can run a mile in 4 minutes. The best women need 4.5 minutes. Women' sspeeds are always slower than men' s, but some facts are surprising. Some of the fastest womenswimmers today are teenage girls. One of them swam 400 metres in 4 minutes 21.2 seconds when she was only 16. The first"Tarzan" in films was an Olympic swimmer, Johnny Weissmuller. His fastest 400 metres was 4 minutes 59.1 seconds, which is 37.9 seconds slower than a girl 50 years later! This does not mean that women are catching men up. Conditions are very different now, and sport is much more serious. It is so serious that some women athletes are given hormone(荷尔蒙) injections. At the Olympics a doctor has to check whether the women athletes are really women or not. It seems sad that sport has such problem. Life can be very complicated when there are two separate sexes !

Women are called "the weaker sex" because_________
A．women do as much work as men
B．people think women are weaker than men
C．sport is easier for men than for women
D．in sport the two sexes are always together


37、
Which of the following is true?
A．Boys and girls study separately everywhere.
B．Women do not run or swim in races with men.
C．Famous Prime Ministers are women.
D．Men can expect to live longer than women in Europe.


38、
"That at least is what people say. " means people_________
A．say other things too
B．don' t say this much
C．say this but may not think so
D．only think this


39、
What problems does sport have?
A．Some women athletes are actually men.
B．Some women athletes are given hormone injections.
C．Women and men do not run or swim in the same races.
D．It is difficult to check whether women athletes are really women.


40、
In this passage the author implies that . _________
A．women are weaker than men, but faster
B．women are slower than men, but stronger
C．men are not always stronger and faster than women
D．men are faster and stronger than women