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　　倒數第四周星期四

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　　Bob Dylan is one of America’s greatest songwriters. Now he has written a book about his life that critics have praised. Bob Dylan’s book, “Chronicles: Volume One,” was published in October. It has been among the best-selling books in America. The New York Times newspaper named it one of the five best non-fiction or true- life books in 2004. And recently, the National Book Critics Circle named it one of the five finalists for best biography or autobiography of last year.

　　Bob Dylan grew up in the small town of Hibbing, Minnesota. As a young man, in 1961, he moved to New York City with his guitar. He wanted to become a folk singer and musician. In his book, he writes about his experiences playing and singing other people’s songs in clubs in the Greenwich Village area. He writes about many artists, writers and musicians who influenced him.

　　The main influence on him was the great folk singer Woody Guthrie. Guthrie was living in a hospital in New Jersey because he had a serious disease. Dylan visited him often and played Guthrie’s songs to him. Later, Dylan became extremely famous for the songs he wrote. The media called him the “voice of a generation.”Bob Dylan writes that his wife and five children were the most important part of his life. He describes trying to find privacy for his family at his home in Woodstock, a town in New York State. But people from all over the country came to visit him and destroyed his peace.

　　Dylan also writes about spending time in New Orleans, Louisiana, while recording the album “Oh Mercy” in 1980. He writes about the process of recording the album. And he writes about the friendly people he met in Louisiana. One was a store owner named Sun Pie, who even gave Dylan a sign for his car that said “World’s Greatest Grandpa.”

　　Critics have compared Bob Dylan’s book “Chronicles” to one of his songs. They say it brings to life images, faces and places. They say the book forms layers of meaning through rich details. “A song is like a dream,” Dylan writes, “and you try to make it come true.”

　　41. Dylan became very famous mainly because ____.

　　A. he wrote lots of songs which were quite popular with the people in his times

　　B. he used to visit the great folk singer Woody Guthrie and play his songs to him

　　C. he was praised by critics.

　　D. he sang the songs written by well-known writers and musicians

　　42. When living with his family in Woodstock, Dylan ____.

　　A. devoted much of his time to song writing

　　B. visited lots of famous singers and musicians

　　C. completed his book “Chronicles: Volume One”

　　D. was unwilling to meet too many people from all over the country

　　43. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

　　A. The town of Hibbing was the place where Dylan began his career.

　　B. Dylan had a great influence on a folk singer with the name Woody Guthrie.

　　C. The album “Oh Mercy” was the most successful works of Dylan.

　　D. The store owner in Louisiana may be one of Dylan’s fans.

　　44. We can infer from the passage that ____.

　　A. Dylan expressed the hope and dream of the people of his times in his songs

　　B. Dylan tried to shut himself from the outside world and devoted himself to his career

　　C. Dylan’s fame was mainly built on the success of his autobiography “Chronicles”

　　D. Dylan became famous after the recording of his album “Oh Mercy”

　　B

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　　45. If you choose a camp for your baby, you may choose ____.

　　A. Cybercamps

　　B. Glen Cove

　　C. Farmingdale

　　D. Camp Blue Bay

　　46. In Cybercamps, you will learn ____.

　　A. how to design a Web page

　　B. how to do Red Cross swimming

　　C. how to improve your level of subjects

　　D. how to play tennis

　　47. If you apply for Glen Cove for a week, you may pay ____.

　　A. $425

　　B. $1,062.5

　　C. $749

　　D. $4,250

　　48. If you want to enroll a camp for your daughter, you may call ____.

　　A. 206-442-4500

　　B. 519-676-0904

　　C. 516-756-1751

　　D. 516-741-2550

　　C

　　Determined to make school more related to the workplace, Roosevelt High School in Portland, Oregon, developed a school-to-work program. In their first year, students are offered some job pathways in natural resources, human services, health care, business, arts and communication. The following year, each student chooses one of the pathways and examines it in depth, spending three hours a week watching someone on the job. Such a program is also in practice in some other states.

　　The school-to-work program is built around a partnership. For example, Eastman Kodak, a major employer in Colorado, introduces students to business by helping them construct a model city using small pieces of wood. “The children use the models to decide on the best place to set up schools,” says Lucille Mantelli, director for Eastman Kodak in Colorado. Kodak introduces math by teaching fifth graders to use their pocket money properly. They also provide one-on-one job watching experiences and offer chances of practice for high school juniors and seniors. “Students come to the workplace two or three hours a week,” explains Mantelli. “They do the job for us. We pay them and they get school credits (學分). We also give them our views on their performance and developmental opportunities.”

　　In these partnerships, everybody wins. The students tend to take more difficult courses than students in schools that don’t offer such programs. Business benefits by having a better prepared workforce needed in future years. “It’s a way for us to work with the school systems to develop the type of workforce we’ll need in future years,” Mantelli continued. “We need employees who understand the basics of reading and writing. We need them to be good at math and to be comfortable working on a team.”

　　“Our theory is that they can learn as much outside the classroom as in. All students have the ability to change the world, not just to live in it. To do that, they have to know how to solve problems and use critical thinking skills. We need to encourage them to dream about jobs that go beyond what they see today,” concludes a school-to-work program organizer.

　　49. Using the example of Eastman Kodak in Colorado, the writer shows us ____.

　　A. what the school decides to do

　　B. why the students get paid for their jobs

　　C. where the students have their math class

　　D. what role the business plays in the program

　　50. The main purpose of the school-to-work program is to _____.

　　A. offer students more difficult courses

　　B. introduce new job opportunities to schools

　　C. improve relations between students and teachers

　　D. make what students learn in school related to the workplace

　　51. According to the text, Lucille Mantelli is ____.

　　A. a math teacher

　　B. a school designer

　　C. a company manager

　　D. a program organizer

　　52. What does the writer mean by saying “…everybody wins.” (Paragraph 3)?

　　A. Students get school credits by taking examinations.

　　B. Both students and business benefit from the program.

　　C. The working conditions of the company have improved greatly.

　　D. Every teacher and student gets paid for working outside the school.

　　D

　　Three Yale University professors agreed in a discussion that the automobile was what one of them called “Public Health Enemy No. 1 in this century.” Besides polluting the air and overcrowding the cities, cars are involved in more than half the disastrous accidents, and they contribute to heart disease “because we won’t walk anywhere any more”, said Richard Weinaman, professor of medicine and public health.

　　Speaking of many of those man-made dangers of the automobile, Arthur W. Galson, professor of biology, said it was possible to make a kerosene-burning turbine car that would “lessen smog by very large factor”. But he expressed doubt whether Americans were willing to give up moving about the countryside at 90 miles per hour in a large vehicle. “Americans seem wedded to the motor car—— every family has to have at least two, and one has to be a convertible (敞篷車) with 300 horsepower,” Professor Galson continued. “Is this the way of life that we choose because we treasure these values?”

　　For Professor Sears, part of the blame lies with “a society that regards profit as a supreme value, under the illusion that anything that’s technically possible is, therefore, morally justified”. Professor Sears also called the country’s dependence on its modern automobiles “terrible economics” because of the large horse-power used simply “moving one individual to work”. But he admitted that Americans had painted themselves into a corner by allowing the national economy to become so dependent on the automobile industry.

　　“The solution,” Dr. Weeinerman said, “is not to find a less dangerous fuel but a different system of inner city transportation. Because of the increasing use of cars, public transportation has been allowed to wither (衰弱) and grow worse, so that if you can’t walk to where you want to go, you have to have a car in most cities,” he declared. This, in turn, Dr. Weinerman contended, is responsible for the “arteriosclerosis (動脈硬化)” of public roads, for the pollution of the inner city and for the middle-class movement to the suburbs.

　　53.The main idea of the passage is that ____.

　　A. Americans are fond of their cars

　　B. public transportation in America is well-developed

　　C. American cars are too fast

　　D. automobiles endanger health

　　54. It can be inferred from the passage that ____.

　　A. people are more interested in fast automobiles than in their health

　　B. Americans feel more closely tied to their cars than to their wives

　　C. kerosene-burning engines would pollute the environment more than gasoline-burning engines do

　　D. kerosene-burning cars would go faster than gasoline-powered cars

　　55. In paragraph 3, Professor Sears implies that ____.

　　A. technology is always good for people

　　B. technology is not always good for people

　　C. financial profit is more important than environmental protection in the society

　　D. American people care about both environmental pollution and technological development

　　56. According to Dr. Weinerman, the solution is that ____.

　　A. public transportation should be improved so that people can become less dependent on their cars

　　B. people should get rid of their cars and take bus to work

　　C. one family should own just one car

　　D. a fuel less dangerous than gasoline must be found

　　E

　　With only about 1, 000 pandas left in the world, China is desperately trying to clone(克隆) the animal and save the endangered species. That’s a move similar to what Texas A & M University researchers have been undertaking for the past five years in a project called “Noah’s Ark”.

　　Noah’s Ark is aimed at collecting eggs, embryos and DNA of endangered animals and storing them in liquid nitrogen. If certain species should become extinct, Dr. Duane Kraemer, a professor in Texas A & M’s College of Veterinary Medicine, says there would be enough of the basic building blocks to reintroduce the species in the future.

　　It is estimated that as many as 2, 000 species of mammals, birds and reptiles will become extinct in over 100 years. The panda, native only to China, is in danger of becoming extinct in the next 25 years.

　　This week, Chinese scientists said they grew an embryo by introducing cells from a dead female panda into the egg cells of a Japanese white rabbit. They are now trying to implant the embryo into a host animal.

　　The entire procedure could take from three to five years to complete.

　　“The nuclear transfer(核子移植) of one species to another is not easy, and the lack of available (capable of being used) panda eggs could be a major problem,” Kraemer believes. “They will probably have to do several hundred transfers to result in one pregnancy (having a baby). It takes a long time and it’s difficult, but this could be groundbreaking science if it works. They are certainly not putting any live pandas at risk, so it is worth the effort,” adds Kraemer, who is one of the leaders of the Project at Texas A & M, the first-ever attempt at cloning a dog.

　　“They are trying to do something that’s never been done, and this is very similar to our work in Noah’s Ark. We’re both trying to save animals that face extinction. I certainly appreciate their effort and there’s a lot we can learn from what they are attempting to do. It’s a research that is very much needed.”

　　57. The aim of “Noah’s Ark” project is to _______.

　　A. make efforts to clone the endangered pandas

　　B. save endangered animals from dying out

　　C. collect DNA of endangered animals to study

　　D. transfer the nuclear of one animal to another

　　58. According to Professor Kraemer, the major problem in cloning pandas would be the lack of

　　_______.

　　A. available panda eggs

　　B. host animalsC. qualified researchers D. enough money

　　59. The best title for the passage may be _______.

　　A. China’s Success in Pandas Cloning???

　　B. The First Cloned Panda in the World

　　C. Exploring the Possibility to Clone Pandas

　　D. China —the Native Place of Pandas Forever

　　60. From the passage we know that _______.

　　A. Kraemer and his team have succeeded in cloning a dog

　　B. scientists try to implant a panda’s egg into a rabbit

　　C. Kraemer will work with Chinese scientists in clone researches