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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

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A. some unmissable films this winter B. a way of booking film tickets

C. the company of Cineworld D. a certain Clubcard

2. Which of the following is true?

A. This advertisement is probably taken from a magazine.

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C. You will receive two emails after you place your order using the basket.

D. Cineworld encourages viewers to be involved in its management for experience.

B

The government of Norway is planning to build an unusual storage center on an island in the Arctic Ocean. The place would be large enough to hold about two million seeds. The goal is to present all crops known to scientists. The British magazine New Scientist published details of the plan last month. The structure will be designed to protect the world’s food supply against nuclear war, climate change and other possible threats. It will be built in a mountain on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen. The mountain is less than one thousand kilometers from the North Pole, the northernmost position on earth.

An international group called the Global Crop Diversity Trust is working on the project. The director of the group, Cary Fowler, spoke to New Scientist. He said the project would let the world rebuild agriculture if, in his word, “the worst came to the worst”. Norway is expected to start work next year. The project is expected to cost three million dollars. Workers will drill deep in the side of a sandstone mountain. Temperatures in the area never rise above 0oC. The seeds will be protected behind walls a meter thick and high-security door.

The magazine report says the collection will represent the products of ten thousand years of farming. Most of the seeds at first will come from collections at seed banks in Africa, Asia and Latin America. To last a long time, seeds need to be kept in very low temperatures. Workers will not be present all the time. But they plan to replace the air inside the storage space each winter. Winter temperatures on the island are about eighteen degrees below 0oC. The cold weather would protect the seeds even if the air could not be replaced.

Mr. Fowler says the proposed structure will be the world’s most reliable gene bank. He says the plant seeds would only be used when all other seeds are gone for some reason. Norway first proposed the idea in the 1980s. But security concerns delayed the plan. At that time, the Soviet Union was meeting in Rome of the Food and Agriculture Organization.

3.The project is meant to ______.

A．increase the world’s food output in the future

B．carry out some scientific experiments on plant genes

C．protect crop seeds from dying out in case of possible disasters

D．build an exhibition centre of the world’s plant seeds

4.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the above passage?

A．The government of Norway will perform the project alone.

B．Seeds to be collected there were produced ten thousands years ago.

C．Spitsbergen is chosen because it is free of the threat unclear war forever.

D．Temperature is a major consideration when choosing the storage place.

5.We can infer from the text that _______.

A．People will get newly-developed seeds from the center every year.

B．The storage center will greatly promote world agriculture

C．Norway had meant to build the storage centre about 30 years before.

D．There haven’t been any seed storage centers in the world before.

6.What is probably the best title of the passage?

A．The Best Place to Store Seeds B．Noah’s Ark（诺亚方舟）of Plant Seeds in Plan

C．Concerns of World Food Supply D．A New Way to Feed the World

C

He has his own stereo. He has a great many toys. He even has cable TV as well. From what Patrick Lavery said . Tommy has it pretty good. "We've devoted our lives to taking care of these chimps which have no place to go, " says Lavery.

Right now. Tommy lives with the Laverys' . But if some animalrights activists get their way. he will soon be living in a chimp shelter. And he will be considered a person.

'Tommy has the right as well as self-determination that is enough for him to be a legal person ." said Steven Wise. a lawyer for a group called the Nonhuman Rights Project. He also said that Tommy should be removed from the Laverys' home. He argued that Tommy's rights

were being violated(冒犯) because he lived in a cage all on his own. And he asked the court to make Tommy a person in order to free the chimp from his current living condition. The court is now deciding whether they are going to declare Tommy a person.

At the hearing, some of the justices were skeptical-especially when Wise compared Tommy's situation to slavery. His argument was that slaves were once considered property instead of persons. just as Tommy is now. "I have to tell you, I keep having a difficult time with your using slavery as an analogy (比喻) for this situation." said Presiding Justice Karen Peters. "You might want to pursue another argument. "

But Lavery said that he considers the concept of making Tommy a person absurd. Tommy works in the entertainment industry before retiring, so he is not used to being around other chimps. " We would place him in the shelter if we had the opportunity to." Lavery said. " But he has his special needs. He can't go just anywhere as other people say. More importantly. he has never been associated with other chimps. And he could get hurt if he went in the wrong atmosphere. "

Wise disagrees. "Tommy does not want to be imprisoned for his life in a cage. He's an extraordinarily complex being. He can understand the past. He can look forward to the future. And he suffers in solitary confinement(单独监禁) as much as a human being. "

7. The argument between Lavery and Wise is

A. whether Tommy should he considered a person with rights

B. whether Tommy should be removed from the Lavervs' home

C. whether people should protect Tommy against being misused

D. whether people should take good care of those chimps in cages

8. It is implied in the fourth paragraph that____

A. Wise was not good at organizing his speech

B. some justices were not interested in animals' rights

C. Tommy lived in such a had situation as slaves once did

D. Wise's argument was too unreasonable to convince others

9. Lavery hasn't placed Tommy in an animal shelter mainly because

A. Tommy is in great need of special care

B. Lavery hasn't found a proper shelter so far

C. Lavery has been living in harmony with Tommy

D. Tommy may not get used to living with other chimps

10. The purpose of Wise's words in the last paragraph is to____

A. fight against Lavery's behavior B. conclude his attitude towards Tommy

C. win more support for Tommy. D. praise Tommy for his wisdom

D

Is gun play good or bad for children? For many years I emphasized its harmlessness. When concerned parents expressed doubt about letting their children have toy guns, because they didn’t want to encourage them in the slightest degree to become criminals, I would explain how little connection there was. In the course of growing up, children have a natural tendency to bring their aggressiveness more and more under control if their parents encourage this. One- to two-year-olds, when they are angry with another child, may bite the child’s arm without hesitation. But by 3 or 4 they have already learned that aggression is not right. However, they may pretend to shoot their mother or father, but smiling to assure them that the gun and the aggressive behaviour aren’t to be taken seriously.

In the 6- to 12-year-old period, children will play an earnest game of war, but it has lots of rules. There may be arguments, but real fights are relatively rare. At this age children don’t shoot at their mother or father, even in fun. It’s not that the parents have turned stricter; the children’s own conscience has. In adolescence aggressive feelings become much stronger, but well brought-up children can turn them into athletics and other competition or into kidding their friends.

In other words, I’d explain that playing at war is a natural step in the disciplining of the aggression of young children; that a cautious parent doesn’t really need to worry about producing a criminal.

But nowadays I’d give parents much more encouragement to guide t