persuaded an expert in action, Dr Glyn Heath at Salford University, to build him a set of goat legs.
\realised that everyone else had stopped chewing and there was this tension which I hadn't kind of noticed before and then one or two of the goats started tossing their horns around and I think I was about to get in a fight,\
The American science humour magazine, the Annals of Improbable Research, is the inspiration behind the Ig Nobels, which are now in their 26th year. Thursday night's ceremony was reported as disorderly as ever, with audience members throwing the compulsory paper planes while real Nobel winners attempted to hand out the prizes.
28. What does the underlined word “take-off” in Para2 most probably mean?
A. famous B. interesting C. ridiculous D. serious 29. Which of the following is correct？
A. B. C. D.
Ig Nobles are as well-known as the real Nobels.
Ig Nobels are rooted in the Annals of Improbable Research.
Both Ig Nobels and the real Nobels are of equal importance to human achievemnet. Ig Nobels are nothing but a laughter.
30. What words can best describe Thwaites according to the passage?
A. selfish and ambitious C. humorous and greedy
B. amazing and patient D. ridiculous and courageous
31. What could be the best title for the passage?
A. As we sow, so we shall reap
B. Ig Nobels or real Nobels, which is demanding? C. Preservation—Alpine’s goat man in action D. Ig Nobel win for Alpine’s goat man.
【答案】BCBD
D
Electric cars are dirty. In fact, not only are they dirty, they might even be more dirty than their gasoline-powered cousins.
People in California love to talk about “zero-emissions(排放)vehicles”, but people in California seem to be clueless about where electricity comes from. Power plants mostly use fire to make it. Aside from the new folks who have their roofs covered with solar cells, we get our electricity from generators(发电机). Generators are fueled by something--usually coal, oil, but also by heat generated in nuclear power plants. There are a few wind farms and geothermal
(地热)plants as well, but by far we get electricity mainly by burning something.
In other words, those \It’s just because the coal is burned somewhere else, it looks clean. It is not. It's as if the California Greens are covering their eyes—“If I can't see it, it's not happening.” Gasoline is an incredibly efficient way to power a vehicle; a gallon of gas has a lot of energy in it. But when you take that gas (or another fuel) and first use it to make electricity, you waste a nice part of that energy, mostly in the form of wasted heat—at the generator, through the transmission lines, etc.
A gallon of gas may propel your car 25 miles. But the electricity you get from that gallon of gas won't get you nearly as far— so electric cars burn more fuel than gasoline-powered ones. If our electricity came mostly from nukes or geothermal, or hydro or wind or solar, then an electric car truly would be clean. But for political, technical, and economic reasons, we don't use much of those energy sources.
In addition, electric cars' batteries which are poisonous for a long time will eventually end up in a landfill. And finally, when cars are the polluters, the pollution is spread across all the roads. When it's a power plant, though， all the junk is in one place. Nature is very good at cleaning up when things are too concentrated, but it takes a lot longer when all the garbage is in one spot. 32. What is the main idea of the text?
A. Electric cars are far from clean
B. Electric cars are better than gasoline-powered ones C. People cast doubts on electric cars’ batteries D. Gasoline is an efficient way to power a vehicle
33. The electricity we get from a gallon of gas may make our car run ______.
A. not less than 25 miles B. as far as 50 miles C. not more than 25 miles D. as far as 25 miles 34. According to the text, electric cars ______.
A. are more environmentally friendly B. burn more fuel than gas-powered ones
C. are very good at cleaning up when things are not too concentrated D. are poisonous for a long time and will eventually end up in a landfill 35. It can be inferred from the text that ______.
A. being green is good and should be encouraged in communication
B. electric cars are now the dominant vehicle compared with gasoline-powered cousins C. zero-emissions vehicles should be chosen to protect our environment
D. electric cars are not clean because we get electricity mainly by burning something
【答案】ACBD
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。
Why we still need to read Dickens
Walk into any bookstore, and you can hardly avoid “bumping into” Charles Dickens. Many of Dickens’ works still sell well today. 36 As someone who teaches Dickens, the question of why we still read him is often on my mind. 37 One day nearly 10 years ago, however, when I was giving a lecture, I was telling the students that for Victorian readers, Dickens’s writing was a “tune-in-next-week” type of thing that generated crazes. 38 “But why should we still read this stuff?” the student asked. The answer I gave was only acceptable, “Because he teaches you how to think,” I said.
The question annoyed me for years, for years, and for years I told myself answers, but never with complete satisfaction. We read Dickens because he is not just a man of his own times, but also a man for our times. We read Dickens because we can learn from experiences of his characters almost as easily as we can learn from our own experiences.
39 But these are not exactly the reason why I read Dickens. My search for an answer continued until one day a text message came from a student of mine. “We still read Dickens’s novels,” she wrote, “because they tell us why we are what we are.” Simple as it was, that’s the explanation I had sought for years.
Dickens shines a light on who we are during the best of times and worst of times. 40 If you have time, go to pick up one of his many novels, read it and enjoy what it has to tell you about yourself.
A. Then a hand shot up.
B. And they are placed on outstanding shelves. C. I know that wasn’t really the reason.
D. I already know who it is I’ll meet in those novels. E. That’s why we still need to read him today. F. That question was never more troubling. G. These are all wonderful reasons to read Dickens. BFAGE
第一节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选
项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Ryan Hickman was born in an American family. When he was three years old, Ryan Hickman visited a 41 center in California and found what he wanted to do most. 42 , the next day as he greeted his dad, Damion, he made a(n) 43 . “I’m going to 44 all the bottles and cans from everyone in the neighborhood. I’ll start a new 45 myself!”
It’s never too 46 to start a business, though there’re no other staff but himself when the company was started. Today, Ryan, aged seven, the world’s 47 garbage man, is the CEO, manager
and 48 of Ryan’s recycling company. Though Ryan says he doesn’t remember what made it all start, he remains 49 about what he is doing. When questioned why he did so, he said, “it’s 50 bottles get to the ocean, and then animals get sick and die.” Ryan’s neighbours have been 51 to the little boy’s knocking for their recycled goods. More and more 52 ones call to ask for a pickup or even 53 bags of bottles and cans at Hickmans’ door. At school, Ryan’s favorite activity is helping the dustmen 54 the trash and taking away the recyclable. “My wife and I support him and we told him that whenever he wants to 55 , he can,” Damion said. “I want to see him with friends, but the recycling just makes him 56 . He has actually 57 five of his friends to join him.”
According to Damion, Ryan has 58 over $11,000 through recycling bottles and cans. Ryan says he wants to buy a large trash truck to be 59 with enough garbage and become a 60 garbage man.
41. A. financial
B. recycling
C. delivering
D. industrial
42. A. Amazingly 43. A. bet
B. Terribly
C. Simply D. Ridiculously
D. explanation D. pick up D. campaign D. late D. youngest D. employee
B. announcement B. throw out B. study B. early B. busiest
C. speech C. pick out
44. A. throw up
45. A. investigation 46. A. old
C. business C. weak
47. A. cleverest 48. A. customer
C. wealthiest C. trainee
B. employer
49. A. enthusiastic 50. A. why
B. energetic
B. how
C. unbearable
C. because
D. comfortable
D. when D. devoted
51. A. opposed B. supposed B. instructive
C. accustomed
52. A. supportive 53. A. throw away 54. A. desert 55. A. start
C. aggressive
D. persuasive D. pull away
D. weed D. back
B. turn down
C. lay down
B. separate B. continue
C. circulate C. quit
56. A. relaxed B. upset B. urged
C. delighted C. forced
D. exhausted
57. A. persuaded 58. A. raised
D. instructed
D. spent
B. saved C. wasted
59. A. surrounded 60. A. diligent
B. entertained B. generous
C. equipped C. wealthy
D. loaded D. true
41-45 BABDC
46-50 BDDAC 51-55 CACBC 56-60 CABDD
第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式，并将答案填写在答题卡相应的位置上。
For those of you who 61 _______(convince) the selfies（自拍照）were just a passing interest and would never take off, prepare to eat your 62______ (word). Selfies are in fact constantly evolving, though whether for better or worse is under debate.
“Today is the 63 _____ (good) day of my life,” wrote North Carolina student Seth Schneider, in a post on Twitter 64 ______ has been shared more than 170,000 times. “I successfully took a picture of 65 _______ (I ) high-fiving myself.”
Now everyone with a smart phone wants a taste 66_____ this glory. It’s harder than it looks. In your phone’s selfie mode, put those opposable thumbs 67 ______ (work) by trying to press the button while throwing the phone in the air and then clapping. There is a chance that the phone 68 ______(break) into pieces as it lands.
Not everyone can do it, but if you manage it, you become 69_____pioneer of human achievement, you become a pioneer of human achievement. 70 ______ (consequent), it’s not a waste of time at all. 61. were convinced 66. of
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。 增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。 删除：把多余的词用斜线（\\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下面划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。 注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Good morning, everybody. My topic for today is “How Americans Value Time”. Americans think a great deal of time. From childhood they learn value time. As children, they are teach to be on time to attend school, to do work and to do nothing. When they are having the good time, they say that time flies. When a person is dying, they say he is living on borrowing time. A working American has to work devotedly for 8 hours a day and 40 hours a week. In his spare time, he also works hardly for more money. At weekends are even filled with their activities. In the street you can hardly see one which walks leisurely. Actually, they are almost flying. 1. of 改为about
2. value 前加to
3. teach 改为taught
62. words
63. best 64.that/which 65. my/ me
70. consequently
67. to work 68. will break 69. a