The time has come for us to reap the benefits ___ the strong foundations we laid in science and technology.

The freezing Northeast hasn’t been a terribly fun place to spend time this winter, so when the chance came for a weekend to Sarasota, Florida, my bags were packed before you could say “sunshine”. I left for the land of warmth and vitamin C(维生素C), thinking of beaches and orange trees. When we touched down to blue skies and warm air, I sent up a small prayer of gratefulness. Swimming pools, wine tasting, and pink sunsets (at normal evening hours, not 4 in the afternoon) filled the weekend, but the best part- particularly to my taste, dulled by months of cold weather root vegetables was a 7 a.m. adventure to the Sarasota farmers’ market that proved to be more than worth the early wake-up call.

The market, which was founded in 1979, sets up its tents every Saturday from 7:00 am to 1 p.m. rain or shine, along North Lemon and State streets. Baskets of perfect red strawberries, the red-painted sides of the Java Dawg coffee truck; and most of all, the tomatoes: amazing, large, soft and round red tomatoes.

Disappointed by many a broken, vine-ripened(蔓上成熟的) promise, I’ve refused to buy winter tomatoes for years. No matter how attractive they look in the store, once I get them home they’re unfailingly dry, hard, and tasteless. But I homed in, with uncertainty, on one particular table at the Brown’s Grove Farm’s stand, full of fresh and soft tomatoes the size of my fist. These were the real deal and at that moment, I realized that the best part of Sarasota in winter was going to be eating things that back home in New York I wouldn’t be experiencing again for months.

Delighted as I was by the tomatoes in sight, my happiness deepened when I learned that Brown’s Grove Farm is one of the suppliers for Jack Dusty, a newly opened restaurant at the Sarasota Ritz Carlton, where luckily for me I was planning to have dinner that very night. Without even seeing the menu, I knew I’d be ordering every tomato on it.

(1)、What did the author think of her winter life in New York? ( )

A、Exciting.

B、Boring.

C、Relaxing.

D、Annoying.

(2)、What made the author’s getting up early worthwhile? ( )

A、Having a swim.

B、Breathing in fresh air.

C、Walking in the morning sun.

D、Visiting a local farmer’s market.

(3)、What can we learn about tomatoes sold in New York in winter? ( )

A、They are soft.

B、They look nice.

C、They taste great.

D、They are juicy.

(4)、What was the author going to that evening? ( )

A、Go to a farm.

B、Check into a hotel.

C、Eat in a restaurant.

D、Buy fresh vegetable

(5)、In the first paragraph, the word “adventure” means ______. ( )

A、risk.

B、effort.

C、achievement.

D、access.

1.The teacher has requested the students to（ ）in red the words which have been spelled incorrectly.

2.The historians use the（ ）on the walls of ancient temples to guide them in their research.

3.During the interview,he asked me to（ ）what kind of things I do in my spare time.

4.A（ ）is the piece of paper on which your doctor writes an order for medicine and which you then give to a chemist or pharmacist to fill the order.

5.He（ ）his low mark to the noisy study environment.

6.My main reason for（ ）to New Scientist is to keep abreast of advances.in science.

A．The woman has known the man for a long time.

B．The woman could not make a decision of the job.

C．The woman is not satisfied with the man.

D．The man has an appointment before he got to the office.

Dirty Money for Laundries

Selling illegal drugs is big business and laundering the proceeds an art form. One kilogram, or 2.2 pounds, of raw coca leaves is worth $1,400 in Latin America. By the time it is turned into refined cocaine, its value has grown to $100,000. Making the money appear to have come from a legitimate source that can create a paper trail spanning dozens of countries, and a web of financial transactions that may be impossible to unravel.

The United Nations has estimated that between $120 billion and $500 billion is laundered each year in the industrial world bigger than the volume of the oil trade.

Illegally obtained money is difficult to openly spend and invest: Drug cash often consists of large volumes of mixed denomination notes; the physical volume of notes can be far larger than the volume of the drugs themselves. Performing large transactions without arousing suspicion is the launderer's principal hurdle.

Different countries have different disclosure requirements, and the launderer seeks to exploit that by moving money between jurisdictions and covering up the audit trail. Terry Burke of the National Drugs Intelligence Unit in Britain said: "The big cases are so international in scale, and it can be very difficult to lift the veil of secrecy."

Investigators have identified three main stages in the laundering process.

In the first stage, the money can be deposited in a legitimate premium life insurance policy. Or the cash can be used to buy 'art, jewelry, antiques or gambling chips.

The second stage is called "layering". The launderer wants to separate his illicit proceeds from their source so he enters into a large number of financial transactions designed to disguise the trail and provide anonymity.

Finally, there is "integration". If the layering has been successful, the launderer will bring the money back into the economy in such a way that it appears to be normal business funds. So, an art object will be sold, a life insurance policy redeemed, and so on.

The BCCI scandal is a classic instance of drug-related financial abuse. With total assets in 1988 of $20 billion and 417 branches in 73 countries, BCCI was considered the seventh-biggest private bank in the world. In its case, prosecutors alleged that one scheme it operated was to collect cash in various American cities, which was deposited. The money was then transferred by wire to BCCI accounts abroad and used to buy certificates of deposit that acted as collateral for BCCI "loans" to the drug traffickers, supplying them with "clean" money.

Another money laundering investigation in the United States and Britain, code-named Operation Cougar, has so far identified $318 million of "dirty" money. The laundering operation spanned the Isle of Man, the British Virgin Islands and the U.S. mainland, and involved seven drug dealing organizations. At the center of each organization was a lawyer who coordinated the movement of money between offshore bank accounts, shelf companies and nominee directors.

One trick was to use the organizations' offshore companies to mortgage property. On the face of it, the paper trail was legitimated--the mortgage was bona fide, and interest payments were met. But as the financial layers were peeled back, the illicit origin of the money became apparent. So far, Operation Cougar has resulted in the imprisonment of 40 people.

One method that has come to the attention of the authorities more recently is the launderers' use of Hawala banks family-run businesses offering money transmission services, Interpol became sufficiently worried to mount a two-day conference on the subject earlier this year. Hawala originates in Asia and is basically a system of letters of credit, providing a legitimate channel for the movement of money from one area to a

A．Y

B．N

C．NG

Every profession or trade, every art, or every science has its technical vocabulary, the function of which is partly to designate things or processes which have no names in ordinary English, and partly to secure greater exactness in nomenclature (术语). Such special dialects, or jargons, are necessary in technical discussion of any kind. Being universally under stood by the devotees of the particular science or art, they have the precision of a mathematical formula. Besides, they save time, for it is much more economical to name a process than to describe it. Thousands of these technical terms are very properly included in every large dictionary, yet, as a whole, they are rather on the outskirts of the English language than actually within its borders. Different occupations, however, differ widely in the character of their special vocabularies. In trades and handicrafts and other vocations, such as farming and fishing, that have occupied a great number of men from remote times, the technical vocabulary is very old. It consists largely of native words, or of borrowed words that have worked themselves into the very fiber of our language. Hence, though highly technical in many particulars, these vocabularies are more familiar in sound, and more generally understood, than most other technicalities. The special dialects of law, medicine, divinity, and philosophy have also, in their older strata, be come pretty familiar to cultivated persons, and have contributed much to the popular vocabulary. Yet, every vocation still possesses a large body of technical terms that remain essentially foreign, even to educated speech. And the proportion has been much increased in the last fifty years, particularly in the various departments of natural and political science and in the mechanic arts. Here new terms are coined with the greatest freedom, and abandoned with indifference when they have served their turn. Most of the new coinages are confined to special discussions and seldom get into general literature or conversation. Yet, no profession is nowadays, as all professions once were, a closed guild. The lawyer, the physician, the man of science, or the priest associates freely with his fellow creatures, and does not meet them in a merely professional way. Furthermore, what is called popular science makes everybody acquainted with modem views and recent discoveries. Any important experiment, though made in a remote or provincial laboratory, is at once reported in the newspapers, and everybody is soon talking about it--as in the case of the Roentgen rays and wireless telegraphy. Thus, our common speech is always taking up new technical terms and making them commonplace.

The author's main purpose in the passage is to ______.

A．describe a phenomenon

B．argue a belief

C．propose a solution

D．stimulate action

The tower of Pisa has been leaning so long--over 840 years--that it’s natural to assume it will go against gravity forever. But the famous structure has been in danger of falling down almost since its first brick was laid.

It began leaning shortly after construction began in Builders had only reached the third of the tower’s planned eight stories when its foundation began to settle unsteadily unevenly on soft soil composed of mud, sand and clay. As a result, the structure leaned slightly to the north. Laborers tried to compensate by making the columns and arches(拱顶) of the third story on the sinking northern side slightly taller. They then proceeded to the fourth storey, only to find themselves out of work when political unrest stopped construction.

The tower sat unfinished for nearly 100 years, but it wasn’t done moving. By the time work restarted in 1272, the tower tilted to the south--the direction it still leans today. Engineers tried to make another adjustment, this time in the fifth story, only to have their work interrupted once again in 1278 with just seven stories completed. Unfortunately, the building continued to settle, sometimes at an alarming rate. Finally, between 1360 and 1370, workers finished the project, once again trying to correct the lean by angling the eighth story, with its bell room, northward.

In 1989, a similarly constructed bell tower in Pavia, northern Italy, collapsed suddenly. Officials became so worried the tower of Pisa would suffer a fate similar to the collapsed tower in Pavia that they closed the monument to the public. A year later, they brought together an international team to see if the tower could be brought back from the brink.

By 2001, the team had decreased the tower’s lean by 44 centimeters(17 inches), enough to make officials confident that they could reopen the monument to the public. The actions taken by Burland and his team could, theoretically(在理论上), stabilize the structure forever. The real threat now comes from the masonry(石造建筑) itself, especially the material in the lower stories, where most of the forces caused by the centuries-long leaning have been directed. If any of this masonry crushed, the tower could collapse. And even a minor earthquake in the region could have devastating consequences.

In spite of these potential problems, engineers expect the famous structure will remain stable for at least another 200 years. By then, another intervention may be required, but the technology available to make improvements could be far more advanced and preserve the tower for another 800 years.

32.Why did the tower of Pisa begin to lean since its first brick was laid?

A.The workers didn’t do exactly what they were ordered

B.People at that time appreciated something special

C.It was build on soft soil composed of mud, sand and clay

D.The workers made a big mistake during construction

What does the underlined word “collapsed” in Paragraph 5 mean?A.Fell down

B.Burned down

C.Disappeared

D.Shook

Why does the real threat come from the tower itself after 2001?A.Because it was too old after so many years

B.Because people think it is out of fashion

C.Because years’ stress is on the material in the lower storeys

D.Because someone damaged it intentionally

What does the author think of the tower’s future?A.It will be torn down in 20 years

B.It will fall down as the bell tower did in Pavia

C.It will stand another 200 years before falling down

D.It will exist for long with the development of technology

请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析，谢谢！

Questions are based on the following passage．

The tower of Pisa has been leaning so long——nearly 840 years——that it"s natural toassume it will go against gravity forever. But the famous structure has been in danger ofcollapsing almost since its first brick was laid.

It began leaning shortly after construction began in 1173. Builders had only reachedthe third of the tower"s planned eight stories when its foundation began to settle unevenlyon soft soil composed of mud， sand and clay. As a result， the structure leaned slightly tothe north. Laborers tried to compensate by making the columns and arches of the thirdstory on the sinking northern side slightly taller. They then proceeded to the fourth story，only to find themselves out of work when political unrest halted construction.

The tower sat unfinished for nearly 100 years， but it wasn"t done moving. By thetime work restarted in 1272， the tower tilted to the south——the direction it still leans today.

Engineers tried to make another adjustment， this time in the fifth story， only to have theirwork interrupted once again in 1278 with just seven stories completed.

Unfortunately， the building continued to settle， sometimes at an alarming rate.Finally， between 1360 and 1370， workers finished the project， once again trying to correctthe lean by angling the eighth story， with its bell room， northward.

In 1989， a similarly constructed bell tower in Pavia， northern Italy， collapsedsuddenly. Officials became so worried the tower of Pisa would suffer a fate similar to thecollapsed tower in Pavia that they closed the monument to the public. A year later， theyrallied together an international team to see if the tower could be brought back from thebrink.

By 2001， the team had decreased the tower"s lean by 44 centimeters （17 inches），enough to make officials confident that they could reopen the monument to the public. Theactions taken by Burland and his team could， theoretically， stabilize the structure forever.

The real threat now comes from the masonry （ 石造建筑 ） itself， especially the materialin the lower stories， where most of the forces caused by the centuries-long leaning havebeen directed. If any of this masonry crushed， the tower could collapse. And even a minorearthquake in the region could have devastating consequences.

In spite of these potential problems， engineers expect the famous structure willremain stable for at least another 200 years. By then， another intervention may berequired， but the technology available to make improvements could be far more advancedand preserve the tower for another 800 years.

Why did the tower of Pisa begin to lean since its first brick was laid? 查看材料

A.The workers didn"t do exactly what they were ordered.

B.People at that time appreciated something special.

C.It was build on soft soil composed of mud， sand and clay.

D.The workers made a big mistake during construction.

听力原文：M: Hello, this is John Burns from the Top Company Ltd. I'm phoning to return Ms. Thompson's call.

W: Oh, hello, Mr. Burns. This is Susan Thompson speaking. I'm glad you ring back so soon. There's a serious problem, I'm afraid. You know that order for 500 cases of Top Whiskey we put recently?

M: Oh, yes. I saw to it myself. What's the problem? Hasn't it arrived?

W: Well, in a way, but it's stuck at the customs. There's something wrong with the declaration, it seems. Some kind of omission or error.

M: Oh, really? That's strange. Do you know what it is?

W: Well, I only heard that some of the details were incomplete and the customs can't let the consignment through.

M: Ms. Thompson, I'll tell you what I'll do. Our forwarding agents are handling this delivery and they're generally very reliable. Er, let me just get on to them.

W: Yes, if you would. And can you let me know as soon as possible when I can have the Whiskey? Time's rather short and our customers are waiting for the wine, you know.

M: Of course. I'll see to it, Ms. Thompson, and if at all possible, you'll get a call today.

W: Well, getting the delivery today would suit me better. Oh, one other thing, I'm out of the office after 12 o'clock. If you call me after this time, would you leave a message with our switchboard operator? I'll tell her to expect your call.

M: Yes, I spoke to her before. I'll get things moving as quickly as I can.

W: Right. Thanks. Goodbye then, Mr. Burns.

M: Goodbye. You'll be hearing from us very soon.

Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

23. What do we know from the woman's complaint?

24. What does the man say about their forwarding agents?

25. What is the man asked to do at the end of the conversation?

(20)

A．The agents failed to deliver the wine.

B．The consumers are not satisfied with the wine.

C．The wine isn't of the same brand as she ordered.

D．The goods can't get through the customs.