A) T B) F

Script: The 9/11 attacks had immediate and overwhelming effects upon American people.

正确答案： A 5. A) T B) F

Script: For President Bush, the 9/11 attacks were more than an act of terror.

正确答案： A 6. A) T B) F

Script: As time goes by, people will totally forget the miseries and pains that the 9/11 attacks brought.

正确答案： B 7. A) T B) F

Script: September 11 was one of the most serious attacks on American territories in history.

正确答案： A 8. A) T B) F

Script: In fact, Saddham Hussein was a religious extremist.

正确答案： B 9. A) T B) F

Script: Dr. King’s words warn us that we should focus on self-development as well as war abroad.

正确答案： B 10.

A) T B) F

Script: There are still some serious tensions hard to be settled in Iraq.

正确答案： A

Section B

Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

For almost thirty years, the World Trade Center stood more than 410 meters above New York City's financial center. The two towers of the Center were the tallest buildings in the city. They had more than 100 (11)_________________ . Then on the morning of September 11, two hijacked airplanes (12)_________________ the buildings.

Many people died immediately in (13)_________________ and fires. Others ran down countless steps in an effort to escape the buildings. Others waited for help in their offices. Then, one after another, both buildings fell. The collapse of the towers killed thousands of people. It also (14)_________________ or damaged surrounding buildings.

Engineers from the state of Illinois soon will (15)_________________ the collapse of the buildings for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Their early study, however, shows that the buildings (16)_________________ up well. One tower (17)_________________ standing for about 47 minutes after the plane hit it. The other tower stayed up for about one hour and forty minutes after it was struck. The fact that the towers stayed up as long as they did (18)_________________ to escape.

Several experts have said no building could have resisted the attacks. The terrorists (19)_________________ the largest explosions and the hottest fires possible. So they loaded the planes heavily with fuel. The heat from the burning fuel weakened the steel structure of the towers. These fires burned far hotter than fires used to (20)_________________ . They also burned longer. The intense heat caused the upper levels of the buildings to fall. Then the lower levels also fell.

Script: For almost thirty years, the World Trade Center stood more than 410 meters above New York City's financial center. The two towers of the Center were the tallest buildings in the city. They had more than 100 levels. Then on the morning of September 11, two hijacked airplanes struck the buildings.

Many people died immediately in explosions and fires. Others ran down countless steps in an effort to escape the buildings. Others waited for help in their offices. Then, one after another, both buildings fell. The collapse of the towers killed thousands of people. It also wrecked or damaged surrounding buildings.

Engineers from the state of Illinois soon will investigate the collapse of the buildings for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Their early study, however, shows that the buildings held up well. One tower remained standing for about 47 minutes after the plane hit it. The other tower stayed up for about one hour and forty minutes after it was struck. The fact that the towers stayed up as long as they did permitted many people to escape.

Several experts have said no building could have resisted the attacks. The terrorists meant to cause the largest explosions and the hottest fires possible. So they loaded the planes heavily with fuel. The heat from the burning fuel weakened the steel structure of the towers. These fires burned far hotter than fires used to test building materials. They also burned longer. The intense heat caused the upper levels of the buildings to fall. Then the lower levels also fell.

正确答案： levels

正确答案： struck

正确答案： explosions

正确答案： wrecked

正确答案： investigate

正确答案： held

正确答案： remained

正确答案： permitted many people

正确答案： meant to cause

正确答案： test building materials

Part II Reading Comprehension ( 25 minutes )

Section A

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with several blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

A) raining B) screams C) smoldering D) coincidence E) denounced F) just for once G) digest H) invincibility I) untrustworthy J) entombed K) blotted out L) collective M) finger-pointing N) flourished O) vulnerable

21. ______________________

正确答案： C

22. ______________________

正确答案： H

23. ______________________

正确答案： B

24. ______________________

正确答案： K

25. ______________________

正确答案： J

26. ______________________

正确答案： G

27. ______________________

正确答案： O

28. ______________________

正确答案： M

29. ______________________

正确答案： E

30. ______________________

正确答案： A

Section B

Directions: There are several 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.

Passage One

Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.

Islamic terrorism may be a distant threat for Shearer Lumber Products, a timber company based in Idaho. But eco-terrorism is a very real one. In November, the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), an underground organization, gave warning that it had “spiked” trees in the Nez Perce national forest to protest against logging. Spiking involves hiding metal bars in tree trunks, thereby potentially crippling chain saws and hurting people. More such attacks are expected. The nation’s forests have seen a sharp increase in violent incidents — equipment vandalized, people intimidated — over the past ten years. Shearer now carefully inspects every tree before cutting and has been using metal detectors to check every trunk being processed. Yet Ihor Mereszczak, of the Nez Perce Forest Service, says it has been hard to get the FBI’s attention, and investigations have got nowhere.

The ELF is only one thread in a web of underground radical environmentalists. Its aim is to inflict as much financial pain as possible on organizations or people who, by its lights, are exploiting the environment. The ELF, though made up of anonymous cells, nonetheless operates a website offering tips on how to cause fires with electric timers. Until recently, it also had a public spokesman.

Together with the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), which operates along the same lines, the ELF is estimated to be responsible for over $45m-worth of damage in North America over the past few years. In 1998, it caused fires that did $12m-worth of damage in Vail, Colorado, to make the point that the ski resort’s expansion was threatening places where lynxes live. Since September 11th, the ALF and ELF have claimed responsibility for starting a fire at a primate research center in New Mexico, releasing mink from an Iowa fur farm, and firebombing a federal corral for wild horses in California.

Are they terrorists? The two groups reject the label, claiming to take all precautions against harming “animals, whether humans or not”. But earlier this year Louis Freeh, the FBI’s boss, listed both organizations among the most active domestic terrorist groups. The House subcommittee on forests, which Mr. McInnis heads, will hold a hearing on eco-terrorism in February. But he has annoyed some mainstream green groups by asking them to denounce the ELF’s and ALF’s methods. Greenpeace, for instance, says that its disapproval is self-evident, and resents being asked to express it. Mr. McInnis still wants their answer by December 1st, but the