A “l(fā)ost tribe” that reached America from Australia may have been the first Native Americans, according to a new theory.
If proved by DNA evidence, the theory will break long established beliefs about the southerly migration of people who entered America across the Bering Strait, found it empty and occupied it.
On this theory rests the belief of Native Americans to have been the first true Americans. They would be classified to the ranks of escapee, beaten to the New World by Aboriginals (土著人) in boats.
To a European, this may seem like an academic argument, but to Americans it is a philosophical question about identity, Silvia Gonzales, of Liverpool University said .
Her claims are based on skeletons found in the California Peninsula of Mexico that have skulls quite unlike the broad Mongolian features of Native Americans. These narrow-skulled people have more in common with southern Asians, Aboriginal Australians and people of the South Pacific Region.
The bones, stored at the National Museum of Anthropology (人類學(xué)) in Mexico City, have been carbon-dated and one is 12,700 years old, which places it several thousand years before the arrival of people from the North. “We think there were several migration waves into the Americas at different times by different human groups,” Dr. Gonzales said. “The timing, route and point of origin of the first colonization of the Americas remains a most contentious topic in human evolution.”
But comparisons based on skull shape are not considered conclusive by anthropologists, so a team of Mexican and British scientists, backed by the Natural Environment Research Council, has also attempted to take out DNA from the bones. Dr. Gonzales declined yesterday to say exactly what the results were, as they need to be checked, but indicated that they were consistent(一致) with an Australian origin.
小題1:It is generally considered that the first Native Americans came from ________.
A．North AsiaB．Australia
C．South PacificD．South Asia
小題2:The skeletons found in the California Peninsula of Mexico have ________.
A．the broad skull shape
B．the narrow skull shape
C．different features of Aboriginal Australians
D．the same features of Native Americans
小題3:The underlined “contentious” is similar in meaning to “________”.
A．likely to cause great interestB．difficult to solve
C．well-known to allD．likely to cause argument
小題4:Which of the following statements is true according to the text?
A．Research on skulls can draw an exact conclusion.
B．DNA tests have proved the fact that the first Native Americans came from Australian.
C．Scientists are still not sure about the origin of the Native Americans.
D．People began to enter America across the Bering Strait about 12,700 years ago.

小題1:A
小題2:B
小題3:D
小題4:C

小題1:A 推斷題。第二段的意義是“如果DNA檢測(cè)證實(shí)了這個(gè)理論的話，這將動(dòng)搖長(zhǎng)期以來人們一直堅(jiān)信的觀點(diǎn)：一群往南遷徙的移民穿過白令海峽進(jìn)入美洲后，發(fā)現(xiàn)無人在此居住，便占領(lǐng)了它�！� 據(jù)此推斷可得。
小題2:B 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)第五段表述的意思“這些頭骨和美國(guó)土著居民那種蒙古人寬頭骨的特征極為不同。這些窄頭骨的人種和南亞人、澳洲土著和環(huán)南太平洋國(guó)家的人種有更多共同點(diǎn)�！笨芍�。
小題3:D 詞義猜測(cè)題。科學(xué)家一直在探討“誰是美洲最早的土著居民”這一問題，根據(jù)上下文可猜測(cè)出，在人類進(jìn)化史上，最早在美國(guó)進(jìn)行殖民活動(dòng)的時(shí)間、路線和人口來源是一個(gè)最“有爭(zhēng)議的”話題。
小題4:C 事實(shí)確認(rèn)題。本文提到的“新理論”和“長(zhǎng)期以來人們一直堅(jiān)信的觀點(diǎn)”都在探討研究之中。對(duì)于DNA檢測(cè)，岡薩雷斯博士拒絕透露確切的結(jié)果，因?yàn)檠芯拷Y(jié)果還需要核對(duì)，他只是暗示這些DNA和澳大利亞人的血統(tǒng)是吻合的。由此可確認(rèn)C是正確的。
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小題1:From Paragraph 1 we learn that ________.
A．the Baima has the longest history among all the minority groups in China
B．the Baima people live in most areas of Sichuan and Gansu Provinces
C．forests are the main source of firewood for the Baima people
D．in order to fight floods, the Baima people are forbidden to cut down forests
小題2: We can infer that the Baima girls wore their traditional costumes to greet visitors mainly because _______.
A．they wanted to look more beautiful
B．their leader Li Qin asked them to do so
C．it was a way to show their culture to attract visitors
D．it was necessary before they sang traditional songs
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A．The Baima people had a tense relationship with the reserve.
B．Villagers had to look for other means of making a living.
C．The pandas’ habitat was often disturbed by villagers.
D．Villagers stopped selling things to tourists.
小題4:The underlined word “deter” in the last paragraph can be replaced by “________”.
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Since 1900 their numbers have fallen very quickly. Between 1935 and 1950 the number of humpbacks fell from 20,000 to 10,000 and since 1950 the number has fallen to only 6,000. The number of right whales has fallen even faster. In 1935 there were 25,000. The number fell to 6,000 in 1950 and since 1950 the number has fallen to 4,000. Men have always been hunters. Thousands of whales have become victims(犧牲品). It’s time to do something to protect whales.
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A．We know the exact number of whales in the sea.
B．It’s easy for us to count whales in the sea.
C．We find it impossible to count whales in the sea.
D．We don’t want to know how many whales there are in the sea.
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A．more slowly than that of humpback whales
B．faster than that of humpback whales
C．a(chǎn)s slowly as that of humpback whales
D．a(chǎn)s fast as that of humpback whales
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The Transantarctic Mountain, some of them more than 14,000 feet high, divide the continent into two very different regions. The part of the continent to the “east” of the mountains is a high plateau covered by an ice sheet nearly two miles thick. “West” of the mountain, the half of the continent south of the Americas is also covered by an ice sheet, but there the ice rests on rock that is mostly well below sea level. If the West Antarctic Ice Sheet disappeared, the western part of the continent would be reduced to a sparse cluster of island.
While ice and snow are obviously central to many environmental experiments, others focus on the mysterious “dry valley” of Antarctica, valleys that contain little ice or snow even in the depths of winter. Slashed through the mountains of southern Victoria Land, these valleys once held enormous glaciers that descended 9,000 feet from the polar plateau to the Ross Sea. Now the glaciers are gone, perhaps a casualty of the global warming trend during the 10,000 years since the ice age. Even the snow that falls in the dry valleys is blasted out by vicious winds that roars down from the polar plateau to the sea. Left bare are spectacular gorges, rippled fields of sand dunes, clusters of boulders sculptured into fantastic shapes by 100-mile-an-hour winds, and an aura of extraterrestrial desolation.
Despite the unearthly aspect of the dry valleys, some scientists believe they may carry a message of hope of the verdant parts of the earth. Some scientists believe that in some cases the dry valleys may soak up pollutants faster than pollutants enter them.
小題1:What is the best title for this passage?
A Antarctica and environmental Problems.
B Antarctica: Earth’s Early-Warning station.
C Antarctica: a Unique Observation Post.
D Antarctica: a Mysterious Place.
小題2:What would the result be if the West Antarctic Ice Sheet disappeared?
A The western part of the continent would be disappeared.
B The western part of the continent would be reduced.
C The western part of the continent would become scattered Islands.
D The western part of the continent would be reduced to a cluster of Islands.
小題3:Why are the Dry Valleys left bare?
A Vicious wind blasts the snow away.                B It rarely snows.
C Because of the global warming trend and fierce wind.  D Sand dunes.
小題4:Which of the following is true?
A The “Dry Valleys” have nothing left inside.
B The “Dry Valleys” never held glaciers.
C The “Dry Valleys” may carry a message of hope for the verdant.
D The “Dry Valleys” are useless to scientists.

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starve to death.
So important is the web to an orb-web spider's survival that the animal will continue to construct new webs daily even if it is being starved. For 16 days the starving spider builds completely normal webs. Then, as the animal gets scrawnier（憔悴的）， it constructs a wider-meshed web using fewer strands（線）. Such webs would only trap larger prey, which is more economical from the perspective of a starving spider.
The spider stores energy by recycling web protein. It simply eats its own web each evening and reuses it to produce new silk. In studies with radioactively，labeled materials, it was found that 95 percent of web protein reappears in the next day' web. Most of the energy needed for web-building is used in walking over the strands as they are laid down．
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小題1: Which of the following best expresses the main ideas of the passage?
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C．Secrets of the Spiders' Life D．Spiders' Highly Preprogrammed Brain
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A．Most spiders will stop conducting webs when hungry.
B．One Web-building spider usually conducts one web.
C．Web-building spiders will probably die without their webs．
D．Web-building spiders have good eyesight.
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A．it is 16 days oldB．it is getting weaker
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小題4:A spider's ability to finish an incomplete web proves that___________.
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“ Most local stories are based on a larger theme,” American storyteller Opalanga Pugh says, “ Cinderella(灰姑娘), or the central idea of a good child protected by her goodness, appears in various forms in almost every culture of the world.”
Working with students in schools, Pugh helps them understand their own cultures and the general messages of the stories. She works with prisoner too, helping them knowing who they are by telling stories that her listeners can write, direct, and act in their own lives. If they don’t like the story they are living, they can rewrite the story. Pugh also works to help open up lines of communication between managers and workers. “For every advance in business,” she says, “ there is a greater need for communication.” Storytelling can have a great effect on either side of the manager-worker relationship, she says.
Pugh spent several years in Nigeria, where she learned how closely storytelling was linked to the everyday life of the people there. The benefits of storytelling are found everywhere, she says.
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小題1:What do we learn about American storyteller from Paragraph 2?
A．They share the same way of storytelling.
B．They prefer to tell the stories from other cultures.
C．They learn their stories from the American natives.
D．They find storytelling useful for both children and adults.
小題2:The underlined sentence (Paragraph 4) suggests that prisoners can _____.
A．start a new lifeB．settle down in another place
C．direct filmsD．become good actors
小題3:Pugh has practised storytelling with _____ groups of people.
A．2B．3C．4D．5
小題4:What is the main idea of the text?
A．Storytelling can influence the way people think.
B．Storytelling is vital to the growth of business.
C．Storytelling is the best way to educate children in school.
D．Storytelling helps people understand themselves and others.

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A．The future of alternative energy
B．How the fuel cells works
C．People’s search for alternative energy
D．The damage done by the blackout last summer.
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A．Its commercial use began in the 1960s.
B．Today it’s being used in almost every corner of the world.
C．It has been in widespread used for about 150 years.
D．It supplies electricity to make the combination of oxygen and hydrogen possible.
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A．Lifton’s Medis Technologies is tapping into fuel cells and solar panels.
B．The fuel cell has been around for about 150 years.
C．The fuel cell’s commercial development did not begin until the 1960s.
D．When hydrogen and oxygen molecules combine, the reaction produces o2 and H2O.
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A．power failureB．the delivering of electricity
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小題1:according to the whole text we can see that the first paragraph ________.
A．puts forward the subject of the text
B．shows the author’s pity on the kid
C．a(chǎn)cts as an introduction to the discussion
D．makes a clear statement of the author’s views
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A．how much he misses his parents now
B．why his parents often appear in his dreams
C．when Lucien will get over all his sadness
D．how proud he was when he succeeded in life
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A．Proud.B．Happy.C．Disappointed.D．Worried.
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B．to have a high sense of duty to the whole society
C．to care what others will remember and treasure
D．to share happiness and sadness with his family
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A．Call on criminals and murderers to lay down their guns.
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The year 2006 was a busy one for space and technology workers. A planet lost its status and space flights caught the imagination of people around the world.
The following is a short list of the major events of the year:____________
IBM has built a chip that runs about 100 times faster than the ones we have now. The development could lead to faster computers. The chip was first made in June. It can run at a speed of 500 gigahertz (千兆赫).
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A．IBM
B．The development of computers
C．The first chip born
D．Faster computer chip
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A．do some research
B．do some repairs
C．be in memory to Columbia shuttle.
D．build a space station.
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A．Pluto is no longer a real planet according to the new theory.
B．People have been dreaming about space flight.
C．Anousheh Ansari was the first women space tourist.
D．The US space shuttle Discovery is the first one launched by NASA at night.
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A．exciting new science of the year of 2006.
B．space flight full of wonders.
C．the major events of the year of 2006.
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