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London Thursday July 26 (Reuters)---Ian Johnstone missed his girlfriend so much that he flew back to Britain from Australia to propose to her(向……求婚). The problem is that she flew in the opposite direction.
He and Amy Dolby could even have met each other when they sat in the same airport waiting-room in Singapore at the same time to wait for connecting flights（航班）.
Dolby, heartbroken when she arrived at Johnstine’s Sydney apartment to find he had flown to London, told the times: “It was as though someone was playing a cruel joke on us. He is the most romantic（浪漫的） person I have ever known. I think our problem is that we are both quite impulsive(冲动的)people. We are always trying to surprise each other.”
After an 11,000-mile flight across the globe, she was greeted by Johnstone’s astonished flat mate asking what she was doing there.
“The terrible truth dawned （明朗）when I found that Ian’s suitcase and most of his clothing were missing. I sat on the end of his bed and cried my eyes out. And that really made me angry,” she said.
Johnstone, a 27-year-old bricklayer, had taken a year off to travel around Australia. But he was missing Dolby, a 26-year-old secretary, so much he got a job on a Sydney building site（建筑工地）and started saving for surprise.
He then flew home to Britain and went to her apartment armed with an engagement ring（订婚戒指）, champagne（香濱酒） and flowers.
“I really missed Amy and I had been thinking about her all the time. I thought she was winding me up when she phoned me from Australia,” he said.
Johnstone then asked Dolby to marry him on the phone. “I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry but I accepted,” she said.
Dolby was given a short tour of Sydney by Johnstone’s friends and Johnstone had to stay in Britain for two weeks because he could not change his ticket.
1. It can be learned from the text that_______.
A. Dolby was heartbroken when she heard Johnstone refused to see her.
B. Johnstone worked in Sydney and went to Britain on business
C. Dolby was greeted by Johnstone’s flat mate at the airport
D. Johnstone failed to see Dolby in her apartment in Britain
2. According to the text, it seemed that_______.
A. Dolby wanted to go sightseeing in Sydney alone
B. Johnstone and Dolby could have seen each other in Singapore
C. Dolby stayed longer in Sydney than Johnstone stayed in Britain
D. the young lovestruck couple had both intended to propose to each other
3. When Johnstone asked her to marry him on the phone, Dolby felt_______.
A. nervous and shy B. cheerful and angry
C. excited and shocked D. confused and sad
4. Which of the following shows the right order of what happened in the text?
a. Johnstone flew back to Britain to propose to his girlfriend, Amy Dolby.
b. Johnstone started working at a Sydney building site.
c. Johnstone went to Amy’s apartment in Britain with an engagement ring.
d. Johnstone proposed to Dolby over the phone.
e. They were waiting for their connecting flight in the airport lounge in Singapore.
f. Dolby called Johnstone from Australia.
A. b-a-d-e-c-f B. c-a b-e-f-d C. b-a-e-c-f-d D. b-a-f-e-c-d

London, Reuters---What could annoy teenagers enough to make them stop hanging out with friends and go home？
No, it’s not a visit from their mothers, and not a threat to take away their cellphones or pocket money.
It’s high-frequency noise. The UK police recently agreed to use a device (装置) called the Sonic Teenager Deterrent. It sends out a sound that makes teenagers become so impatient and angry that they have to cover their ears tightly and walk away.
The sound is at extreme high-pitch that can be heard by those under 20. The body’s natural ability to detect some wave bands (波段) decreases almost entirely after 20, so few adults can hear the sounds. The black-box device, nicknamed the Mosquito because of its sound, can be fixed to the outside walls of shops, offices and homes. It sounds to youngsters like a crazy insect or a badly played violin. But it causes no physical damage.
A number of police forces and councils have given permission to use the system and want to install it at trouble spots.
Staffordshire Police Inspector Amanda Davies, who has given the device to shopkeepers in the Moorlands area, said," It is controlled by the shopkeepers--if they can see through their window that there is a problem, they turn the device on for a while until the group has run away."
小题1:The device can be used to ____________.

A．threaten teenagers in public

B．drive away trouble-makers under 20

C．help mothers control their teenage children

D．help the police control shopkeepers

小题2: From the passage we can know that ___________.

A．young people often suffer from pains in ears

B．shopkeepers are troubled by noisy insects

C．high-frequency noise is beyond the listening ability of people over 20

D．the police invented a new device to deal with teenagers

小题3: The purpose of the writer to write the passage is ________.

A．to advertise a new hi-tech device

B．to tell the reader a piece of news

C．to sell the device to shopkeepers

D．to inform the public as the spokesman of the police

小题4:Who will welcome the device most?

A．Shopkeepers.

B．The police.

C．Young people.

D．The producer.

canberra(reuters)—australia’s kangaroos are genetically similar to humans and may have first evolved in china, australian researchers said tuesday.
scientists said they had for the first time mapped the genetic code of the australian marsupials(有袋类)and found much of it was similar to the genome for humans, the *** backed center of excellence for kangaroo genomics said.
“there are a few differences, we have a few more of this, a few less of that, but they are the same genes and a lot of them are in the same order,”center director jenny graves told reporters in melbourne.
“we thought they’d be completely scrambled, but they’re not. there is great chunks of the human genome which is sitting right there in the kangaroo genome,” graves said, according to aap.
humans and knagaroos last shared an ancestor at least 150 million years ago, the researchers found, while mice and humans separated and went in different ways from one another only 70 million years ago.
kangaroos first evolved in china, but migrated across the america to australia and antarctica, they said.
“kangaroos are hugely informative about what we were like 150 million years ago,” graves said.
68.where does the kangaroo first develop according the scientists?
a.in china. b.in america. c.in australia. d.in antarctica.
69.what does the passage mainly tell us?
a.how the kangaroo first evolved. b.kangaroo’ genetic code have been mapped.
c.kangaroos’genes are close to humans’. d.scientists did much research into kangaroos.
70.what does the underlined word “scrambled” probably mean in the fourth paragraph?
a.funny. b.wrong. c.curious. d.right.

LONDON (Reuters) — British milkman Steve Leech, who saved several shops and flats by putting out a fire with 320 pints of milk, was celebrating Thursday after winning a national bravery award.
Leech, 35, named “Hero Milkman” by the National Dairymen’s Association, said that he had noticed smoke coming out of a shop in Cornwall, southern England, while delivering (递送) milk as usual a year ago.
“I saw the flats up above and thought I’d better do something. So I kicked the door in and started pouring milk everywhere,” Lee told Reuters Thursday.
“When firemen arrived, the fire was almost out,” he said. Firemen said he had helped save the lives of eight people living in the flats above the shops.
“ It was hard work opening all those bottles, especially since they have tamper-proof lids . But it was even harder trying to explain to my boss where all the milk had gone.”
小题1: This is a(n) _______ from London.

A．poster

B．review

C．advertisement

D．news report

小题2: Leech was awarded the prize for his _______.

A．hard work	B．brave behaviour
C．invention	D．patriotic behaviour

小题3: Which is the correct order of what Leech did about a year ago?
①The fire was almost put out.②He kicked the door in.
③He noticed smoke coming out of a shop. ④He delivered mile as usual.
⑤He poured milk everywhere.

A．①②③④⑤

B．④②③⑤①

C．③④①②⑤

D．④③②⑤①

小题4:The underlined sentence in the last paragraph suggests (暗示) that tamper-proof lids add to the difficulty of _______ those bottles.

A．stealing

B．breaking

C．opening

D．wasting

小题5: Which is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

A．Leech put out a fire with milk at the age of 34.

B．Cornwall is in the north of England.

C．Leech saved eight people in the shops.

D．The fire was already out before firemen arrived.

GUATEMALA CITY （Reuters） – A fish that lives in mangrove swamps(红树沼泽) across the Americas can live out of water for months at a time, similar to how animals adapted(适应) to land millions of years ago, a new study shows.
The Magrove Rivulus, a type of small killifish, lives in small pools of water in a certain type of empty nut or even old beer cans in the mangrove swamps of Belize, the United States and Brazil. When their living place dries up, they live on the land in logs(圆木), said Scott Taylor, a researcher at the Brevard Endangered Lands Program in Florida.
The fish, whose scientific name is Rivulus marmoratus, can grow as large as three inches. They group together in logs and breathe air through their skin until they can find water again.
The new scientific discovery came after a trip to Belize.
“We kicked over a log and the fish just came crowding out,” Taylor told Reuters in neighboring Guatgemala by telephone. He said he will make his study on the fish known to the public in an American magazine early next year.
In lab tests, Taylor said he found the fish can live up to 66 days out of water without eating.
Some other fish can live out of water for a short period of time. The walking catfish found in Southeast Asia can stay on land for hours at time, while lungfish found in Australia, Africa and South America can live out of water, but only in an inactive state. But no other known fish can be out of water as long as the Mangrove Rivulus and remain active, according to Patricia Wright, a biologist at Canada’s University of Guelph.
Further studies of the fish may tell how animals changed over time.
“These animals live in conditions similar to those that existed millions of years ago, when animals began making the transition(过渡) from water onto land,” Wright said.
1. The Mangrove Rivulus is a type of fish that _______.
A. likes eating nuts
B. prefers living in dry places
C. is the longest living fish on earth
D. can stay alive for two months out of water
2. Who will write up a report on Mangrove Rivulus?
A. Patricia Wright.
B. Scott Taylor.
C. Scientists from Belize.
D. Researchers in Guatemala.
3. According to the text, lungfish can ________.
A. breathe through its skin
B. move freely on dry land
C. remain alive out of water
D. be as active on land as in water
4. What can we say about the discovery of Mangrove Rivulus?
A. It was made quite by accident.
B. It was helped by Patricia Wright.
C. It was based on a lab test of sea life.
D. It was supported by an American magazine.

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New York (Reuters) --- Television can act like a painkiller when it comes to children and is more effective than a mother’s comforting, according to a small Italian study.
The University of Siena study, published in Archives of Disease in Childhood, was based on 69 children aged 7 to 12 who were divided into three groups to have blood taken.
One group was given no distraction while the blood was being taken. Meantime mothers of children in the second group attempted to distract the youngsters by talking to them, soothing(安慰), and/or caressing them.
In the third group, the children were allowed to watch television cartoons while the procedure was being carried out.
After the samples were taken, the children and their mothers rated their pain scores.
The children recording the highest pain scores were in the group getting no distraction. These scores were about three times as high as those recorded by children allowed to watch the cartoons.
Children comforted by their mothers recorded middling scores.
On average, the mothers rated pain scores higher than the children but they also recorded the lowest pain scores for children who had been allowed to watch television.
“The higher pain level reported by children during mothers’ efforts at distraction shows the difficulty mothers have in interacting positively at a difficult moment in their children’s life,” the researchers said in their report.
They added that watching television also seemed to increase children’s pain tolerance(容忍力).
64. If children are concentrated while having their blood taken, they will _______.
A. feel no pain B. record the lowest pain scores
C. record the highest pain scores D. feel less pain
65. According to the Italian study, children who are suffering from pain had better _______.
A. get comfort from their mothers B. watch cartoons on TV
C. read picture books D. get no distraction
66. The underlined word “distract” in the third paragraph probably means “_______.”
A. reduce one’s pain B. get one’s attention away
C. help one get concentrated D. give comfort to
67. From the passage, we can infer that _______.
A. mothers can soothe their children greatly at hard moments
B. mothers’ love and comfort is the best medicine for children
C. children can have their pain tolerance increased by mother’s efforts
D. mothers’ comfort does not reduce much of their children’s pain

(Reuters)—A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew was presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast on Saturday, and European officials said two people on board were using false identities.
There were no reports of bad weather and no sign of why the Boeing 777-200ER would have vanished from radar screens about an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing.
“We are not ruling out any possibilities,” Malaysia Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya told a news conference.
By the early hours of Sunday, there were no confirmed signs of the plane or any wreckage, well over 24 hours after it went missing. Operations will continue through the night, officials said.
There were no indications of sabotage (蓄意破坏) nor claims of an attack. But the passenger list issued by the airline included the names of two Europeans—Austrian Christian Kozel and Italian Luigi Maraldi—who, according to their foreign ministries, were not in fact on the plane.
A foreign ministry spokesman in Vienna said: “Our embassy got the information that there was an Austrian on board. That was the passenger list from Malaysia Airlines. Our system came back with a note that this is a stolen passport.”
Austrian police had found the man safe at home. The passport was stolen two years ago while he was travelling in Thailand, the spokesman said.
The foreign ministry in Rome said no Italian was on the plane either, despite the inclusion of Maraldi’s name on the list. His mother, Renata Lucchi, told Reuters his passport was lost, presumed stolen, in Thailand in 2013.
U.S. and European security officials said that there was no proof of any terrorist link and there could be other explanations for the use of stolen passports.
小题1:What was Ahmad Jauhari Yahya’s attitude?

A．Uncertain.

B．Negative.

C．Positive.

D．Confident.

小题2:According to the passage, the foreign ministry spokesman in Vienna had made sure ______.

A．two passports had been stolen by two Europeans

B．Christian Kozel was the man who kidnapped the plane

C．the Austrian on board was actually at home

D．Christian Kozel lied to the police

小题3:Which of the following is true about Maraldi?

A．He was from Austria.

B．He was found safe at home.

C．His mother was sad when she saw his name on the list.

D．His passport was lost in Thailand.

小题4:Who should be responsible for the missing of the plane according to the passage?

A．Terrorists.	B．Two people using false identities.
C．We are not sure.	D．Christian Kozel and Luigi Maraldi.

LONDON Thursday July 26(Reuters)—Eddy missed his girlfriend Anna so much he flew back to Britain from Australia to propose(求婚)　to her. The problem is she did the same in the opposite direction.
He and Anna even managed to miss each other when they sat in the same airport waiting room in Singapore at he same time to wait for connecting flights.
Anna, heartbroken when she arrived at Eddy’s Sydney flat find he had flown to London, told The Times,“It was as though someone was playing a cruel joke on us. ”
“He is the most romantic person I have ever known.I think our problem is that we are both quite impulsive(冲动的)people. We are always trying to surprise each other.”
After an 11,000-mile flight across globe, she was greeted by Eddy’s astonished roommate asking what she was doing there.
Eddy,a 27-year-old engineer had taken a year off to travel round Australia. But he was missing Anna,a 26-year secretary, so much he got a job on a Sydney building site (工地)and started saving for a surprise.
He then flew home to Britain and went to her flat armed with an engagement (订婚)ring, wine and flowers.
“I really missed Anna and I’d been thinking about her all the time .I was so excited when she phoned me from Australia ”he said.
Eddy then asked Anna to marry him on the phone .“I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry but I accepted,” she said.
Anna was given a tour of Sydney by Eddy’s friends before going back home. Eddy had to stay in Britain for two weeks because he could not change his ticket.
45.What does the last sentence of the first paragraph tell us?
A.Anna flew to Britain from Australia to marry him.
B.Anna flew to Australia from Britain to marry him.
C.Anna flew to Britain from Australia to propose to him.
D.Anna flew to Australia from Britain to propose to him.
46.The underlined word“miss”in paragraph 2 most probably means_______.
A.escape from B.fail to understand C.fail to meet B.long to see
47.Eddy got a job on a Sydney building site because he________.
A.wanted to travel round Australia B.needed money to pay his daily cost
C.was an engineer at this building site D.hoped to make money from this job
48.Which of the following is TRUE about Eddy and Anna according to the text?
A.Eddy proposed to Anna on the phone and Anna accepted.
B.Anna stayed in Australia waiting for Eddy’s arrival.
C.Anna bad a good time touring Sydney with Eddy.
D.Eddy met Anna in the airport waiting room by chance.

LONDON（Reuters）-Organic fruit, delivered right to the doorstep. That is what Gabriel Gold prefers, and he is willing to pay for it. If this is not possible, the 26-year-old computer technician will spend the extra money at the supermarket to buy organic food.
"Organic produce is always better," Gold said. "The food is free of pesticides（农药）, and you are generally supporting family farms instead of large farms. And more often than not it is locally（本地）grown and seasonal, so it is more tasty. "Gold is one of a growing number of shoppers buying into the organic trend, and supermarkets across Britain are counting on more like him as they grow their organic food business. But how many shoppers really know what they are getting, and why are they willing to pay a higher price for organic produce? Market research shows that Gold and others who buy organic food can generally give clear reasons for their preferences-but their knowledge of organic food is far from complete. For example, small amounts of pesticides can be used on organic products. And about three quarters of organic food in Britain is not local but imported（进口）to meet growing demand. "The demand for organic food is increasing by about one third every year, so it is a very fast-growing market," said Sue Flock, a specialist in this line of business.
60. More and more people in Britain are buying organic food because ____.
　　A. they are getting richer
　　B. they can get the food anywhere
　　C. they consider the food free of pollution
　　D. they like home-grown fruit
61.Which of the following statements is true to the facts about most organic produce sold in Britain？
　　A. It grows indoors all year round.
　　B. It is produced outside Britain.
　　C. It is grown on family farms.
　　D. It is produced on large farms.
62.What is the meaning of "the organic trend" as the words are used in the text？
　　A. growing interest in organic food
　　B. better quality of organic food
　　C. rising market for organic food
　　D. higher prices of organic food
63.What is the best title for this news story？
　　A. Organic food-healthy, or just for the wealthy？
　　B. The making of organic food in Britain
　　C. Organic food-to import or not？
D. Good qualities of organic food

GUATEMALA CITY （Reuters） – A fish that lives in mangrove swamps（红树沼泽）across the Americas can live out of water for months at a time, similar to how animals adapted（适应）to land millions of years ago, a new study shows.
The Magrove Rivulus, a type of small killifish, lives in small pools of water in a certain type of empty nut or even old beer cans in the mangrove swamps of Belize, the United States and Brazil. When their living place dries up, they live on the land in logs（圆木），said Scott Taylor, a researcher at the Brevard Endangered Lands Program in Florida.
The fish, whose scientific name is Rivulus marmoratus, can grow as large as three inches. They group together in logs and breathe air through their skin until they can find water again.
The new scientific discovery came after a trip to Belize.“We kicked over a log and the fish just came crowding out,” Taylor told Reuters in neighboring Guatgemala by telephone. He said he will make his study on the fish known to the public in an American magazine early next year.
In lab tests, Taylor said he found the fish can live up to 66 days out of water without eating.
Some other fish can live out of water for a short period of time. The walking catfish found in Southeast Asia can stay on land for hours at time, while lungfish found in Australia, Africa and South America can live out of water, but only in an inactive state. But no other known fish can be out of water as long as the Mangrove Rivulus and remain active, according to Patricia Wright, a biologist at Canada’s University of Guelph.
Further studies of the fish may tell how animals changed over time.
“These animals live in conditions similar to those that existed millions of years ago, when animals began making the transition（过渡）from water onto land,” Wright said.
小题1:The Mangrove Rivulus is a type of fish that _______.

A．likes eating nuts

B．prefers living in dry places

C．is the longest living fish on earth

D．can stay alive for two months out of water

小题2:Who will write up a report on Mangrove Rivulus?

A．Patricia Wright	B．Researchers in Guatemala
C．Scientists from Belize	D．Scott Taylor

小题3:According to the text, lungfish can________

A．breathe through its skin

B．move freely on dry land

C．remain alive out of water

D．be as active on land as in water

小题4:What can we say about the discovery of Mangrove Rivulus?

A．It was made quite by accident

B．It was based on a lab test of sea life

C．It was supported by an American magazine

D．It was helped by Patricia Wright

GUATEMALA CITY（Reuters）---- A fish that lives in mangrove swamps（红树沼泽）across the Americas can live out of water for months at a time, similar to how animals adapted（适应）to land millions of years ago, a new study shows.
The Mangrove Rivulus, a type of small killifish, lives in small pools of water in a certain type of empty nut or even old beer cans in the mangrove swamps of Belize, the United States and Brazil. When their living place dries up, they live on the land in logs（圆木）, said Scott Taylor, a researcher at the Brevard Endangered Lands Program in Florida .
The fish, whose scientific name is Rivulus marmoratus, can grow as large as three inches. They group together in logs and breathe air through their skin until they can find water again.
The new scientific discovery came after a trip to Belize.
“We kicked over a log and the fish just came crowding out,” Taylor told Reuters in neighboring Guatemala by telephone. He said he will make his study on the fish known to the public in an American magazine early next year.
In lab tests, Taylor said he found the fish can live up to 66 days out of water without eating.
Some other fish can live out of water for a short period of time. The walking catfish found in Southeast Asia can stay on land for hours at a time, while lungfish found in Australia, Africa and South America can live out of water, but only in an inactive state. But no other known fish can be out of water as long as the Mangrove Rivulus and remain active, according to Patricia Wright, a biologist at Canada’s University of Guelph.
Further studies of the fish may tell how animals changed over time.
“These animals live in conditions similar to those that existed millions of years ago, when animals began making the transition（过渡）form water onto land, ” Wright said.
小题1:The Mangrove Rivulus is a type of fish that ________.

A．likes eating nuts

B．prefers living in dry places

C．is the longest living fish on earth

D．can stay alive for two months out of water

小题2:Who will write up a report on mangrove Rivulus?

A．Patricia Wright.

B．Researchers in Guatemala.

C．Scientists from Belize.

D．Scott Taylor.

小题3:According to the text, lungfish can __________.

A．breathe through its skin

B．move freely on dry land

C．remain alive out of water

D．be as active on land as in water

小题4:What can we say about the discovery of Mangrove Rivulus?

A．It was made quite by accident.

B．It was based on a lab test of sea life.

C．It was supported by an American magazine.

D．It was helped by Patricia Wright.