A new power plant in Nakoso, Japan, might someday change everything for coal plants．Since the new power plant fired up in September, the designer, Mistubishi, is expecting to prove it's possible to burn coal without polluting．This technology is known as integrated gasification combined cycle （IGCC）．Proving IGCC works should give Mitsubishi's US partner, NRG Energy, the jump other hurdles to building new clean plants．
The project promised to solve the problem of the ages for power plants: how to produce cheap, clean, reliable electricity．No existing technology can do all three perfectly．
The problem is IGCC isn't there yet．It costs about 20 percent more than traditional plants．And even though it's easier to collect the resulting carbon dioxide from an IGCC plant than a traditional plant, there's no proven way to get rid of the greenhouse gas．One plan is to drill a shaft（通道） to pump the carbon dioxide underground, into saltwater formations．But there's no guarantee it will remain underground forever．
NRG administrators think solving the IGCC riddles is worth the trouble because they expect the U．S．will soon limit the amount of carbon dioxide that power generators may give out ．
"With the additional cost of IGCC, to just voluntarily build something that's 20 percent more expensive, that’s commercial suicide," NRG chief administrator, David Crane said．
NRG administrators expect the cost to decline after six or seven plants are built．But other industry experts think it will take about a dozen plants for the price to be competitive with traditional coal plants．
Takaya Watanabe, a vice general manager of Mitsubishi, admits that the cost challenges are difficult．“It’s good for a company to say we want to be green, but unless someone is willing to pay, it's a dream．It won't keep our family eating rice," he said．
小題1:What is expected of the new technology?
A．To make electricity without polluting the air．
B．To produce energy without burning coal．
C．To keep the use of electricity cheaper．
D．To pump carbon dioxide more easily ．
小題2:What's the biggest problem the companies are faced with?
A．How to pump greenhouse gases．
B．How to deal with the high cost．
C．How to get along with other partners．
D．How to improve the new technology．
小題3:What can be inferred from the passage?
A．New technologies are unacceptable to people．
B．It's unlikely to build more new power plants．
C．The companies are run on a tight budget．
D．Going green is easier said than done．
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小題1:.
In what way is work sharing different from job sharing?
A．Work sharing requires more working hours．
B．Work sharing is aimed at creating more jobs．
C．Work sharing provides a more satisfactory salary．
D．Work sharing depends on the employer's decision．
小題2:.
According to Paragraph 4, young mothers preferred job sharing to conventional part-time work mainly because _____．
A．they sought higher social status
B．they were over ideal working ages
C．they had difficulty finding full-time jobs
D．they had to take care of both work and family
小題3:.
In job sharing the partners should _____．
A．enjoy equal social status
B．have similar work experience
C．keep in touch with each other
D．know each other very well
小題4:.
The main purpose of the passage is to ______．
A．describe job sharing in general
B．discuss how to provide more jobs
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A．The 1st one.B．The 2nd one.C．The 3rd one.D．The 4th one.
小題2:. The underlined word "correspond" can be replaced by ______________.
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A．frighteningB．instructiveC．humorousD．interesting
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Tai Lihua was born healthy. When she was two years old, she lost her hearing because of a fever. Not long after that, she became mute（啞巴）, too. From then on, her world was silent. But she didn’t know this at first. At five years old, when she played a game about sounds with her schoolmates she discovered that she was different from the others. She was very sad about it. Her father went to many places to look for best treatments for her illness. But nothing worked. When she was seven years old, she went to a school for deaf and mute children. In that school, she did well in her studies. Her teacher said she used her mind more than the others and was good at expressing her feeling through dance. She also began to love dance. She thought she could use dance to express what she thought about life.
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小題1:.From the passage we know      .
A．Tai Lihua was found deaf and mute by her father when she played a game with her classmates
B．Tai Lihua danced very well at the beginning of learning to dance
C．Tai Lihua never gave up when she was in trouble
D．Tai Lihua’s parents didn’t take good care of her
小題2:．Which is the right order of the events to Tai Lihua?
a．She danced during the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
b．She was a healthy girl.
c．She began to learn to dance.
d．She lost her hearing.
e．She went to a school for deaf and mute children.
f．She couldn’t speak.
g．She found she was different from the others.
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A．she was born mute and deaf and good at dancing
B．she used her mind more than the others and could use dance to express what she thought about life
C．she has been to many countries and now lives a happy life
D．though mute and deaf, she is beautiful and hard working and good at dancing
小題4:．The best title of the story is       .
A．A poor girl
B．A dancer in the silent world
C．A beautiful dancer
D．The dance during the CCTV Spring Festival Gala

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B. express all that we think in our mind
C. include few senses and things we touch
D. are sometimes nightmares(惡夢(mèng)) that repeat and frighten us
47. A book on dreaming was published by _________.
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B. think dreams always hide someone’s feelings about sex or aggression
C. study dream and dreaming and have their own ideas
D. have the same idea that people often dream about the things they want
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A. Jung thought that dreams provide solutions to problems we face when we are sleeping
B. Freud developed the idea that dreams are expressions of people’s hidden feelings
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D. other researchers have discovered how dreaming helps our bodies work with problems and very sad emotions
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Wi-Fi is stioo limited to a few cities, where there are “ hotspots”. But its capability(容量) of sending information has already done better than that of the mobile phone network, even that of 3G (Third Generation telecommunication technology). Some scientists have started to call Wi-Fi 4G.
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小題4:. Which of the following is the best title?
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Our quarrel with efficiency is not that it gets things done, but that it is a thief of time when it leaves us no leisure to enjoy ourselves, and that it strains our nerves when we try to get things done perfectly. In building bridges, American engineers calculate so finely and exactly as to make the two ends come together within one-tenth of an inch. But when two Chinese begin to dig a tunnel from both sides of a mountain both come out on the other side. --The Chinese’s firm belief is that it doesn’t matter so long as a tunnel is dug through, and if we have two instead of one, why, we have a double track to boot.
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小題1:The writer objects to efficiency mainly on the grounds that it ____.
A．gives us rights to have too much leisure time
B．urges us to get things done punctually
C．robs us of leisure time
D．imposes on us a perfect concept of time
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A．the excitement of life
B．magnificent idling of time
C．more emphasis on efficiency
D．terrifying schoolboy
小題3:The passage tells us ____.
A．Chinese workers come to work when it is convenient
B．a(chǎn)ll Americans are forced to be efficient against their will
C．Chinese engineers are on better terms with the management
D．Americans ought not to work so hard for efficiency
小題4: The author believes that relaxing the rule of punctuality in factories would lead to ____.
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Some scientists say that animals in the oceans are increasingly threatened by noise pollution caused by human beings.
The noise that affects sea creatures comes from a number of human activities. It is caused mainly by industrial underwater explosions, ocean drilling, and ship engines. Such noises are added to natural sounds. These sounds include the breaking of ice fields, underwater earthquakes, and sounds made by animals themselves.
Decibels（分貝）measured in water are different from those measured on land. A noise of one hundred and twenty decibels on land causes pain to human ears. In water, a decibel level of one hundred and ninety-five would have the same effect.
Some scientists have proposed setting a noise limit of one hundred and twenty decibels in oceans. They have observed that noises at that level can frighten and confuse whales.
A team of American and Canadian scientists discovered that louder noises can seriously injure some animals. The research team found that powerful underwater explosions were causing whales in the area to lose their hearing. This seriously affected the whales' ability to exchange information and find their way. Some of the whales even died. The explosions had caused their ears to bleed and become infected.
Many researchers whose work depends on ocean sounds object to a limit of one hundred and twenty decibels. They say such a limit would mean an end to important industrial and scientific research.
Scientists do not know how much and what kinds of noises are harmful to ocean animals. However, many scientists suspect that noise is a greater danger than they believed. They want to prevent noises from harming creatures in the ocean.
小題1: According to the passage, which of the following is increasingly dangerous to sea creatures?
A．The man-made noises.B．The noises made by themselves.
C．The sound of earthquakes.D． The sound of the ice-breaking.
小題2: Which of the following is discussed in the third paragraph?
A．Different places with different types of noises.
B．The very human ears sensitive to all types of noises.
C．The ocean animals' reaction to noises.
D．The same noise measured differently on land and in the ocean.
小題3:We can know from the passage that many researchers think that the noise limit of one hundred twenty decibels would _____.
A．prevent them from doing their research work
B．benefit them a lot in their research work
C．do good to their health
D．increase the industrial output
小題4: According to the passage, what will scientists most probably do in the future?
A．They will try their best to decrease noise.
B．They will work hard to cut down noise pollution.
C．They will study the effect of different noises.
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In time, the temperature dropped to freezing-point and the men trembled inside the ball. They kept in touch with the mother ship by telephone describing how they felt. Then, at a depth of 3 000 feet, the telephone stopped working and they were quite cut off from the outside world. At 30 000 feet, the men were surprised by a sudden, loud noise-------even the smallest hole in the ball would have meant instant death. Luckily, though, it was only one of the outer windows that had broken. Soon afterwards, the bathyscaphe touched the soft ocean floor, raising a big cloud of “dust” made up of different kinds of small, dead sea animals. Here, powerful lights lit up the dark water and the men were surprised to see fish swimming just above them quite untroubled by thc very large wate-pressure. But they did not dare to leave the lights on for long, as the heat from them made the water boil. Quite unexpectedly, the telephone began working again and the weak but clear voices of the officers were heard on thc mother ship. After a stay of thirty minutes the men began their journey up, arriving three hours later, cold and wet through, but none the worse for their experience.
小題1:The officers started their journey at dawn___.  
A．because they wanted to return to the mother ship in twenty four hours
B．because the sea then was calm
C．when the sun was not too strong
D．so that they could return before dark
小題2:What did the officers find out at the bottom of the sea?  
A．They only found different dead sea animals.
B．They did find signs of life.
C．There was no signs of any life.
D．There was only dust.
小題3:The journey to the bottom of the sea helped us to realize that______. 
A．much of the world hasn’t yet been explored
B．there are not any signs of life at the bottom of the sea
C．strong water-pressure has great effect on fish
D．powerful lights can not be turned on at the ocean floor without killing fish
小題4:Which of the following is closest in meaning to “They were cold and wet through, but none the worse for their experience”?   
A．They were cold and wet through, which was the worst thing of all.
B．They were even worse than cold and wet through at the bottom of the sea.
C．Considering what they had just experienced, being cold and wet through was not too
bad.
D．For such an experience, being cold and wet through was not bad for them at all.

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