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54. A. best B. least C. most D. biggest 55. A. unique B. fantastic C. right D. ridiculous
第三部分：阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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Welcome to CERN! The CERN Hotel is made available to persons visiting or working at CERN for their convenience and quiet enjoyment. We hope your stay is pleasant and productive. For your safety and comfort, as well as that of your fellow guests, please read the following Rules and stick to them throughout your stay. Hotel Rules - Code of conduct 1. Guests shall acquaint themselves with the fire safety procedures and follow immediately with fire or other safety drills, alarms and instructions. 2. Guests shall behave appropriately at all times, respectful of the Hotel environment as well as of other guests. 3. During the quiet hours from 11pm to 7am, guests shall be particularly considerate and avoid any conduct that could disturb others in the area. 4. Only registered guests are permitted in the Hotel, other than for brief visits in common areas. No overnight visitors are permitted. 5. Parties or gatherings of more than 10 people are not permitted in the Hotel. Group meetings under the authority of a leader or teacher are tolerated provided that they do not disrupt the environment for other guests. 6. Food must be consumed only in common areas and food waste must be properly disposed of. 7. Smoking, alcohol and recreational drugs are strictly prohibited. 8. The facilities of the Hotel are for the enjoyment of all guests. To this end, care shall be taken to respect the infrastructure. In particular, furniture shall not be moved and nothing may be fixed to furniture or walls. 9. Guests are expected to keep their rooms and the common areas clean and tidy at all times. 10. Proper care should be taken of personal valuables. The CERN Hotel is not responsible in the event of their theft, loss or damage. 56. According to the Code, guests should behave _______.
A. delightfully and creatively B. quietly and respectfully
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C. cautiously and safely D. carefully and responsibly 57. What are you allowed to do when staying at CERN? A. Put up a friend for the night. B. Have a get-together with parents. C. Have supper in their rooms. D. Place furniture to the wall.
B
I expect the travel of the future to become less physical, more mental. Through the use of technology, you’ll be able to let your brain experience the sensations of a new place without actual going there. Robots and computer simulation（模仿）will enable you to visit remote exotic places without ever leaving home---the wreckage of the Titanic, the Galapagos Island, even the moon.
As an oceanographer, I’ve spent decades developing robots to explore the depths, and now we’re putting that technology to use in our JASON Project, a cooperative effort between industry, science, and educators that’s designed to be a world classroom for children. In auditoriums throughout the country, we bring kids together and transmit back to them on large screens our live explorations of far-flung areas of the globe. Not only are the kids observers, but they truly participate. They have the sensation of really being at the site with us---through the “eyes”, “ears”, and motions of the robot.
This year we’re taking the project to the Galapagos Islands. The Galapagos are an exceedingly fragile environment, so fragile that only 60,000 people are allowed to visit them each year. But with JASON we will be able to let some 300,000 children experience those unique islands.
I believe advances in robot technology will one day be the key to an entirely new kind of travel. In the next 10 or 15 years I foresee people having rooms in their houses that will be able to simulate other environments. I like to call these rooms “home domes”---miniature theatres with wrap-around screens and sophisticated equipment that can reproduce the sights, sounds, smells, and feel of a desert, or a forest, or a meadow in high mountains.
Today, much of the world’s population never travels more than 50 or 60 miles from home. And even a person with abundant wealth and time can see only a fraction of the earth’s sights. But this new era of travel will cost so much less in both time and money that many more people will be exposed to a lot more of the globe. And simulated travel will help protect our planet. You can’t take large groups of tourists trooping up to look at Dian Fossey’s gorillas. But a small robot can get very close to a silverback and send the sights, sounds, and smells back to a million people.
I like to use this analogy（类比）to compare traditional travel with future travel: riding a horse is wonderful, but I don’t need to ride one to work anymore. That’s how I feel about traditional travel. Sometimes I still might want to hop on a plane and see a place firsthand, but sometimes I may simply want to walk into my home dome and take the trip from there.
58. Which statement best expresses the main idea of this article? A. Protecting fragile environments like the Galapagos Islands. B. Building home domes to meet people’s desire of travelling
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C. Traveling globally without even leaving home in the future. D. Owning rooms called “home domes” to be put into reality. 59. According to the article, simulated travel _______. A. is a piece of equipment made for traveling B. provides virtual access to actual traveling C. has a negative effect on future environment D. will be available in around fifty years’ time 60. Which question is NOT answered in the article? A. Why is the “home dome” designed and produced? B. When might a “home dome” be available to us? C. What will be like in a “home dome” in future? D. How much does a “home dome” probably cost?
C
Boston school officials plan to notify parents at four schools that their children may have drunk water tainted with lead from drinking fountains that were mistakenly turned on before water testing was complete.
The fountains were active for as little as several hours to as long as three weeks. Boston Public Schools recently launched a $300,000 project to repair and upgrade plumbing(管道系统) so that fountain water could be restored at six buildings that had been using bottled water.
The facilities were selected for the pilot program because prior tests indicated lead levels that were below state and federal standards, school officials said.
However, testing conducted in recent months found elevated lead levels in at least one fountain at four of the six schools, namely Mather Elementary School in Dorchester, Lee K-8 School in Dorchester, Curley K-8 School in Jamaica Plain, Another Course to College in Brighton. Lead contamination was also found at a fifth school, but officials don’t believe anyone drank from the fountains.
School officials had previously told The Globe that none of the new fountains had been turned on since being installed. But they had learned in recent days that the fountains had been mistakenly activated, they said Wednesday.
Officials blamed a lack of communication between employees of the school district’s facilities department and a third-party contractor.
The fountains are now shut off in all six schools. Bottled water is being provided there instead, officials said.
The four schools where children may have drunk water with high lead levels are: Mather Elementary School, Lee K-8 School, Curley K-8 School, and Another Course to College.
“BPS is communicating with families at the schools about these circumstances and their options if they are concerned about potential exposure to lead in drinking water,” said a statement from Boston Public Schools.
School officials said automated phone calls were to be made to families at the affected schools Thursday afternoon and that letters would also be mailed home.
In the meantime, school officials continue to investigate why water from the new fountains has high lead levels, a process that may cause the project to run over budget.
Officials had hoped the new fountains would produce long-term savings by allowing the
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schools to drop their costly reliance on bottled water. Most Boston schools use bottled water because of past lead concerns. The city expects to spend $415,000 this school year alone to provide bottled water.
Four other schools that were still using tap water were recently found to have high lead levels in fountains. The affected fountains were shut off and replaced with bottled water.
Children are particularly vulnerable when it comes to lead. Exposure has been linked to IQ deficits, shortened attention spans, behavioral problems, hearing damage, stunted growth, and lowered birth weight.
Officials said they were also contacting parents at Trotter Innovation School in Dorchester and Boston Green Academy in Brighton, the two other schools in the fountain restoration project.
At Trotter, high lead levels were found, but officials believe no one drank from the fountains. At Boston Green Academy all six fountains tested had lead levels below the state’s standards.
61. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. The fountains involved in the incident are now no longer in use.
B. None of those newly-installed fountains have yet been turned on so far. C. Long term exposure to high lead levels can damage one’s immune system. D. Fountains tested in all six schools had lead levels above state standards. 62. According to the passage, what will make the project overspend budget money? A. To find out actual causes of high lead levels B. To launch and upgrade plumbing in schools C. To have fountains replaced with bottled water D. To pay health services staff to answer questions
63. The officials had fountain restoration project carried out for the purpose of _______. A. boycotting bottled water B. lowering lead levels C. using new fountains D. cutting expenses 64. The passage is written mainly to _______.
A. disclose the problem of high lead-level fountain water B. warn kids of potential danger of drinking fountain water C. report lead-affected water found at Boston schools
D. urge official to accelerate the fountain restoration project
D
November 20, 1924 Dear Scott:
I think you have every kind of right to be proud of this book ---The Great Gatsby（了不起的盖茨比）. It is an extraordinary book, suggestive of all sorts of thoughts and moods. You adopted exactly the right method of telling it, that of employing a narrator who is more of a spectator（旁观者）than an actor: this puts the reader upon a point of observation on a higher level than that on which the characters stand and at a distance that gives perspective.
I could go on praising the book, but points of criticism are more important now. I think you are right in feeling some looseness in chapters six and seven, and I don’t know how
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