Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times, when the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea .When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information .For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
Any man-made (36)__________ launched into (37)__________ will move in (38)________ with the same laws that (39)_________ the motions of the planet about the sun, and the moon about the (40)__________.
Prior to the time of Copernicus, man (41) _________accepted the belief that the earth was the center of the solar system. But efforts to explain the (42) __________ of the planets on this assumption failed. Copernicus pointed out that the difficulties in explaining observations of (43)_________ movement disappeared if one assumed that the sun was the center of the solar system,and that the planets revolved about the sun.
Years later, Galileo took up the defense of Copernicus theory. With experiments such as the dropping of two objects of different size and weight from the Learn Tower of Pisa, (44)_____________________________.In the early seventeenth century, Johannes Kepler formulated laws that described the motionsof the planets about the sun. (45)________________________________, second, the imaginary line from the center of the sun to the center of a planet(called the radius vector) (46)______________________________.
Part Ⅳ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)
Section A
Directions:In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are requested to select on word for each black from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the blank is indentified by a letter.
Please mark the correcsponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centtre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
The American patent system, provided for in the Constitution, was designed to encourage the creation and use of new technology. An inventor would describe the invention, both in writing and with drawings, and __47__ the description with a model to a government official. If the invention was judged to be ___48__ and beneficial, the official would give the inventor a patent. The patent meant that for 14 years the inventor owned the new invention. Inventors could ___49__ their ideas to manufacturers or just use them themselves. The government would not ___50__ any other patent for the same idea, and the inventor could ___51__ anyone of using the patented idea with- out paying the owner of the patent for ___52__ to use it.
A useful patent meant that the inventor could make a lot of money. In exchange for this gover- nmental protection, the government published the patent __53___ , which had to provide enough information so that other people could understand the invention—thus adding to the general__54_technological knowledge. And at the end of the 14 years, anyone could use the invention for__55__.The idea behind the patent system was twofold: it would increase the amount of technology, by providing a way for people to make money out of new ideas, and it would make new technology widely available, by publicizing ideas that might ___56__ be kept as trade secrets.
A) license I ) specifications
B) however J ) yield
C) accuse K) issue
D) submit L) charge
E) convenient M) availabe
F) permission N) otherwise
G) enable O) original
H) free
Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D).You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage one(选自CET4,2008.6)
Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
Gobal warming may or may not be the great environmental crisis of the 21 st century, but—regardless of whether it is or isn’t—we won’t do much about it. We will agrue over it and may even, as a nation, make some fairly solemn-sounding commitments to avoid it. But the more dramatic and meaningful these commitments seen, the less likely they are to be observed.
Al Gore calls global warming an “inconvenient truth”, as if merely recognizing it could put us on a path to a solution. But the real truth is that we don’t know enough to relieve global warming, and—without major technological breakthroughs we can't do much about it.
From 2003 to 2050, the world’s population is projected grow from 6.4 billion to 9.1 billion,a 42% increase. If energy use per person and technology remaim the same, total energy use and greenhouse gas emissions (mainly CO2 ) will be 42% higher in 2050. But that’s too low, because societies that grow richer use more energy. We need economic growth unless we condemn the world’s poor to their present poverty and freeze everyone else’s living standards. With modest growth, energy use and greenhouse emissions more than double by 2050.
No government will adopt rigid restrictions on economic growth and personal freedom (limits on electricity usage, driving and travel) that might cut back global warming. Still, politicians want to show they’re “doing something”. Consider the Kyoto protocol (京都议定书). It allowed countries that joined to punish those that didn’t . But it hasn’t reduced CO2 emissions (up about 25% since 1990), and many signatories (签字国) didn’t adopt tough enough policies to hit their 2008―2012 targets.
The practical conclusion is that if global warming is a potential disaster, the only solution is new technology. Only an aggressive research and development progrom might find ways of breaking our dependence on fossil fuels or dealing with it.
The trouble with the global warming debate is that it has bacome a moral problem when it’s really an engineering one. The inconvenient truth is that if we don’t solve the engineering problem, we’re helpless.
57. What is said about global warming in the first paragraph ?
A)It may not prove an environmental crisis at all.
B)It is an issue requiring worldwise commitments.
C)Serious steps have been taken to avoid or stop it.
D)Very little will be done to bring it under control.
58.According to the author’s understanding, what is AL Gore’s view on global warming ?
A)It is a reality both people and Politicians are unaware of .
B)It is a phenomenon that causes us many inconveniences.
C)It is a problem that can be solved once it is recognized.
D)It is an area we actually have little knowledge about.
59.Greenhouse emissions will more than double by 2050 because of ______________.
A)enonomic growth B)wasteful use of energy
C)the widening gap between the rich and poor D)the rapid advances of science and technology
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