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Passage 1

WENZHOU(Xinhua) -- The train

collision in east China's Zhejiang Province

has killed 39 people and left 192 others

injured as of Sunday night, said a

spokesman with the Ministry of Railways.

A total of 132 people are still being

treated in hospitals, said Wang Yongping, spokesman with the ministry at a press conference.

Eleven people remain in critical condition, said Cheng Jinguo, head of the health bureau in the city of Wenzhou, where the collision happened Saturday night. Cheng said at the press conference that 52 people who suffered slight injuries had been discharged from hospital.

Wang expressed condolences(哀悼) to the concerning families and sincere apology to all the passengers.

The train's "black box" has been discovered and the ministry is investigating the cause of the crash, Wang said.

Wang said the ministry will make public the cause of the accident as soon as the investigation is done and publish the names of the killed and injured.

He said the crash has caused large number of casualties and great property losses. The ministry will find out the cause through thorough investigation and take effective measures to prevent similar accidents.

Despite the accident, the spokesman said the ministry is still confident in the high-speed train.

"China's high-speed train is advanced and qualified. We have confidence in it," he said.

The damaged rails have been repaired and were ready to restart operation but the reopening was delayed by the stormy weather, according to Wang.

Wang did not provide the exact time when the line would start operating again.

The accident occurred at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday on a bridge near Wenzhou when bullet train D301 rear-ended（追尾）D3115, which reportedly lost power after lightning strike.

1. According to Cheng Jianguo, ______ people who had been slightly injured had been recovered and left hospital.

A. 39

B. 139

C. 52

D. 11

2. What can be inferred from the passage?

A. The operation was restarted the next day.

B. There was a thunderstorm when the trains crashed.

C. The cause of the collision was made clear.

D. Similar accidents would be avoided in later operations.

3. Which of the following is NOT true?

A. The Railway Ministry is investigating the cause with the help of the “black box”.

B. Bullet train D301 hit the train D3115 that stopped ahead of it due to lack of power.

C. Bullet train D3115 was forced to stop as a result of the stormy weather.

D. The operation of the line would be restarted with the stormy weather over.

4. What can be the best title of the passage?

A. Trains Crashed Causing Deaths and Damage.

B. Terrible Weather Leading to Trains’ Collision.

C. Investigations upon Trains’ Collision.

D. Confidence in Development of High-speed Trains.

Passage 2

Chinese star Yao Ming has retired. Yao made it official Wednesday, telling a news conference that a series of foot and leg injuries forced him to end his playing career at the age of 30.

“I will formally end my career,’’ said Yao, who became a household name in China before starting his NBA career with the Houston Rockets in 2002. Yao played eight seasons in the NBA.

“Today is an important day for me and holds a special meaning for both my basketball ca reer and my future,’’ Yao said. “I had to leave the court since I suffered a stress fracture（断裂）in my left foot for the third time at the end of last year. My past six months were a painful wait. I have been thinking about my future over and over. Today I am announcing a personal decision, ending my career as a basketball player and officially r etire. But one door is closing and another one is opening.’’Yao said he would return to work with his former

Chinese team, the Shanghai Sharks, with the possibility

of becoming general manager. He already owns the

club and wants to contribute more.“My pl aying career

started with the club. I hope I can do something for it,’’

Yao said.

He later appeared with his family on the stage to

the applause and cheers of the crowd. He thanked a lot

of people — his family, former coaches, even players

like Shaquille O’Neal —“for making me a better player.’’

Rockets general manager Daryl Morey was among those attending the

farewell(告别) conference Wednesday. Morey made the long trip from Houston. Morey said 20 hours on planes was tiring but “I would be sorry if I wasn’t here.” “It’s a big moment,’’ Morey added. “Yao had a sense of humor, a great attitude and sense of responsibility. I hope we can continue his culture in the NBA.’’

1. Yao Ming has retired from basketball because of _____.

A. his age

B. his bad conducts on the court

C. his foot and leg injuries

D. his poor health

2. Yao Ming was _____ before he decided to end his career as a basketball player.

A. peaceful

B. upset

C. confident

D. proud

3. Yao Ming started his playing career in _____.

A. Shanghai

B. Houston

C. Beijing

D. New York

4. According to the passage, which of the following words can’t be used to describe Yao Ming?

A. Talented.

B. Responsible.

C. Humorous.

D. Cautious.

5. What do you know about Daryl Morey?

A. Daryl Morey thinks highly of Yao Ming.

B. Daryl Morey was Yao Ming’s coach.

C. Daryl Morey is a basketball player in the Houston Rockets.

D. Daryl Morey is not satisfied with Yao Ming’s retirement from basketball.

Passage 3

People around the world watched Britain’s Prince William and Kate Middleton get married. The royal wedding broke records for live streaming on the Internet. It also produced more than two million tweets on Twitter.

The ceremony took place Friday at Westminster Abbey in London.

Kate wore a flowing white gown designed by Sarah Burton, the creative director of Alexander McQueen. William wore a red army uniform.

It was Britain’s biggest wedding since William and Harry’s parents, Prince Charles and Princess Diana, were married in nineteen eighty-one.

Nearly two thousand guests filled the church on Friday. Hundreds of thousands of people went to the streets and parks of London to watch the wedding on video screens.

Among the wedding guests were English

football star David Beckham and his wife

Victoria, British Prime Minister David

Cameron, the king of Norway and singer

Elton John.

Bahrain’s crown prince(皇储) was

invited but decided not to attend because of unrest(骚乱) in his country. Britain took back an invitation to the ambassador（外交官）from Syria over violence against protesters there.

After the ceremony, the royal couple traveled to Buckingham Palace. Crowds cheered when the newlyweds appeared on a balcony greeting to them.

Later, William drove his wife out of Buckingham Palace in an open-top Aston Martin car. William and the newest member of the royal（皇家的）family will now be known as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

Kate is twenty-nine years old. William will be twenty-nine in June. His grandmother is Queen Elizabeth. His father, Prince Charles, is first in line to become king. William, as the older son, is second in line. Kate would not become queen, however, since she is not in the royal blood line. There was a big celebration at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. That was where William and Kate first met as art history students in two thousand one.

1. The crown prince of Bahrain was absent from the grand British royal wedding because_____.

A. Britain hadn’t invited him

B. his country was at a terrible situation

C. he was faced with violence against protesters

D. he refused to come to the wedding

2. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. Singer Elton John attended the royal wedding.

B. The British Prime Minister was one of the wedding guests.

C. Kate is second in line to become queen.

D. William’s wife is known as Duchess of Cambridge.

3. It is implied in the passage that _____.

A. the royal wedding was broadcast live through TV and the Internet

B. the wedding has drawn attention of the world

C. the newlyweds were majored in history ten years ago

D. all the celebrities invited have attended the wedding

4. What can be the best title of the passage?

A. Royal Wedding Takes Place

B. Internet Craze about the Royal Wedding

C. Celebrities Attending the Royal Wedding

D. Happy Newlyweds

Passage 4

Screen legend Elizabeth Taylor died today at age 79.

She died of heart attack on March 23, 2011 with all

her children around her at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she had been in hospital for about six weeks in Los Angeles.

Taylor won three Oscars, including a special one for her humanitarian work. But she was pained by ill health, failed romances and personal tragedy.

People fell in love with Elizabeth Taylor in 1944, when she starred in National Velvet—the story of Velvet Brown, a young girl who wins first place in a famous horse race. At first, the producers of the movie told Taylor that she was too small to play the part of Velvet. However, they waited for her for a few months as she exercised and trained—and added three inches to her height in four months! Her acting in National Velvet is still considered the best by a child actress.

Elizabeth Taylor was born in London in 1932. Her parents, both Americans, had moved there for business reasons. When World War II started, the Taylors moved to Beverly Hills, California, and there Elizabeth started acting in movies. After her success as a child star, Taylor had no trouble moving into adult roles and won twice for Best Actress: Butterfield 8(1960) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966).

Taylor’s fame and popularity gave her a lot of power with the movie industry, so she was able to demand very high pay for her movies. In 1963, she received $1 million for her part in Cleopatra—the highest pay received by any star up to that time.

Elizabeth Taylor is a legend of our time. Like Velvet Brown in National Velvet, she has been lucky: she has beauty, fame and wealth. But she is also a hard worker. In a career of more than 70 years and more than 50 films, she was titles as the best actress in the USA. In addition, she puts much time and efforts into her businesses, and into helping others—about 30 years ago, she founded an organization that has raised more than $40 million for research and education.

1. The producers didn’t let Taylor play the part of Velvet at first because they thought she ____.

A. was small in size

B. was too young

C. did not play well enough

D. did not show much interest

2. What Elizabeth Taylor and Velvet Brown had in common was that they were both _____.

A. popular all their lives

B. famous actresses

C. successful when very young

D. rich and kind-hearted

3. Taylor became Best Actress at the age of __________ .

A. 12

B. 28

C. 31

D. 34

4. In her later life, Elizabeth Taylor devoted herself to ___________.

A. doing business and helping others

B. turning herself into a legend

C. collecting money for the poor

D. going about research and education work

5. What’s the best title of this passage?

A. Elizabeth Taylor, Lifelong Star, Dies at 79

B. Elizabeth Taylor’s death

C. Elizabeth Taylor’s romances and personal tragedy.

D. Elizabeth Taylor helped a lot of people

Passage 5

China has conducted the first

test-flight of its J-20 stealth fighter,

Chinese President Hu Jintao has

confirmed to US Defence Secretary

Robert Gates.

The confirmation came after images

of the 15-minute flight in Chengdu

appeared on several Chinese websites.

Mr Hu said that the flight had not

been timed to coincide with Mr Gates’ visit, the US defence secretary said.

The US is currently the only nation with a fully operational stealth plane. But both Russia and China are known to be working on patterns of stealth fighters, which are invisible to radar.

Mr Gates’ three-day visit to Beijing comes among US concern over the speed at which China’s military is modernising and upgrading its technology.

“I asked President Hu about it directly, and he said that the test had absolutely nothing to do with my visit and had been a pre-planned test. And that’s where we left it,” Mr Gates was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.

Leaked images of what was said to be China’s J-20 fighter first appeared earlier this month during taxi tests at the Chengdu Aircraft Design Institute. On Tuesday, the plane took off and flew for about 15 minutes, according to eyewitness accounts published on unofficial Chinese web portals. A video clip of the flight was also posted on the web.China says it expects the stealth plane to be operational some time between 2017 and 2019.

But earlier this month the Pentagon played down concerns over the fighter.

“Developing a stealth capability with a pattern and then integrating that into a fight environment is going to take some time,” said US director of naval intelligence Vice Admiral David Dorsett.

China’s off icial military budget increased very fast between 1999 and 2009 as the country’s economy grew. In 2010 it stood at $78bn (￡50bn).

But the US has by far the largest defence budget in the world at just over $700bn.

1. From the underlined sentence in the third paragraph we can infer that

___________.

A. China did its first test-flight of stealth plane in order to warn USA

B. China did its first test-flight of stealth plane as planned

C. China would like to remind Robert Gates of China’s new weapons

D. China decided to test the fighter when Robert Gates visited China

2. What does the underlined words “ video clip” in the 9th paragraph mean?

A. a small metal for holding something.

B. a piece of jewellery fastening to someting.

C. an act of cutting something to make it shorter.

D. a short of a movie that is shown separately.

3. According to the passage, money spent on military in China is about _______ of that in the USA.

A. 10%

B. 20%

C. 30%

D. 50%

4. Why did US Defence Secretary Robert Gates visit China?

A. The USA hoped to know about China’s stealth planes.

B. The USA hoped to cooperate with China in developing stealth planes.

C. The USA played down concerns over the new fighter in China.

D.The USA concerned about China’s military moder nising and new technology.

5. What’s the best title of this passage?

A. China conducts first test-flight of stealth plane

B. Stealth plane in China shocked the USA.

C. Robert Gates confirmed the stealth plane in China.

D. China’s stealth plane will be the competitor to the USA.

Passage 6

The crisis at the damaged Fukushima

Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Station in

northern Japan has raised worries about

radiation risks. Jonathan Links, an expert

in radiation health sciences at the Johns

Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public

Health in Maryland, says workers within

the nuclear plant are the only people at

risk of extremely high doses of radiation(辐射量).

“Of course, we don’t know what doses they’ve received, but the only persons at risk of strong radiation effects are the workers.” For other people, he says, there may be a long-term worry. People can get cancer from low doses of ionizing(电离) radiation, the kind given out in a nuclear accident.

Professor Links says scientists can use computers to quickly model where radioactive material has blown and settled. Then they measure how large an area is polluted. He says if the situation is serious enough, officials could take steps like telling people not to eat locally grown food or drink the water.

The reactors at Fukushima are on the Pacific coast. But Professor Links says people should not worry about any radioactive material coming into the ocean. “Eve n in a worst-case accident, the sea provides a very high degree of dilution(稀释). So the concentration of radioactivity in the seawater would still be quite low.”

Next month is the 25th anniversary(周年) of the explosion and fire that destroyed a reactor at Chernobyl in Ukraine. The 1986 event was the world’s worst accident in the nuclear power industry.

A new United Nations report says more than 6,000 cases of thyroid(甲状腺) cancer have been found. These are in people who were children in affected areas of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. The report says that by 2005 the cancers had resulted in 15 deaths.

The cancers were largely caused by drinking polluted milk, which came from cows that ate grass where radioactive material had fallen.

1. According to Professor Links, _______.

A. people who receive extremely large amount of radiation are more likely to get cancer

B. only the workers in the nuclear plant are exposed to high level of radiation

C. low doses of radiation don’t have any effects on people’s health

D. where radioactive material has spread, people should stop eating locally grown food

2. It is not a big concern that radioactive materials come into the ocean because

_____.

A. people are too far away to be affected

B. they are of very small amount compared with the vast ocean

C. the ocean can break down the radioactive materials

D. they won’t pollute the seawater

3. What can be the best title of the passage?

A. The Fukushima Power Plant Accident.

B. Bad Effects of Radiation upon People’s Health.

C. Worries about Radiation Risks.

D. Crisis of the Nuclear Power Industry.

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What a newspaper includes is decided by its editors. The managing editor decides which stories are newsworthy and gives reporters their tasks. To an editor, there are two kinds of news: hard news, such as the election (选举) of a president, and soft news. Soft news includes stories about a new dance craze, a beautiful historic building, or an interesting person. The soft news fills whatever space is left after the hard news is put into the newspaper space. There is also public service news to fit in－information about meetings and lectures, free health programs, or changes in a local library’s hours. The managing editor decides how important a story is. If a story is very important, it is marked for a headline on the front page. Less important stories appear farther back in the paper. The story editor takes a story and decides to “boil or trim it”. If the editor decides to boil a story, it becomes front-page article. Depending on the size of a paper, there may be a sports editor, a business editor or an art editor. On a small weekly paper, an editor may cover two or more of these areas. Once all the stories are written, they are given to a copy editor, who corrects any mistakes and fits the articles into the newspaper’s format(版式). The makeup editor, with the managing editor, usually dec ides how the paper will look. The editor’s job is to decide whether a page will look. This editor’s job is to deicide whether a page will carry two stories and four ads or six stories and one ad. Editors may rewrite or redesign many of the pages as more stories come from the pressroom. 61. An example of hard news is _______ A. the election of a president B. a story about a historic building C. a new fashion in clothes D. information about health programs 62. Where a news story is put in the newspaper depends on___________ A. its length B. its style C. its importance D. its title 63. What does the underlined word “trim” in the second paragraph mean? A. Reduce in size B. Increase in length C. Beautify in appearance D. Change in shape 64. Correcting the mistakes of all the articles is the work of_______ A. makeup editors B. copy editors C. managing editors D. business editors 65. What’s the purpose of the passage? A. To persuade people to work as editors. B. To tell the readers how editors are educated. C. To introduce some famous editors. D. To show how a newspaper is made.

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