One of the greatest gifts one generation can give to other generations is the wisdom it has gained from experience.This idea has inspired the award-winning photographer Andrew Zuckerman.He interviewed and took photos of fifty over-sixty-five-year-olds all over the world.His project explores various aspects of their lives.The photos and interviews are now available on our website.

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Let us now have a culture of peace.

——Federico Mayor Zaragoza,Spain

Federico Mayor Zaragoza obtained a doctorate in pharmacy（药学）from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1958.After many years spent in politics,he became Director-General of UNESCO in 1987.In 1999,he created the Foundation for a culture of Peace,of which he is now the president.In addition to many scientific publications,he has published four collections of poems and several books of essays.

Writing is a discovery.

——Nadine Gordimer,South Africa

Due to a weak heart,Nadine Gordimer attended school and university briefly.She read widely and began writing at an early age.She published her first short story at the age of fifteen,and has completed a large number of works, which have been translated into forty languages.In 1991,Gordimer won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Jazz is about the only form of art today.

——Dave Brubeck,USA

Dave Brubeck studied music at the University of the Pacific and graduated in 1942.After World War Two he was encouraged to play jazz.In 1951,he recorded his first album（专辑）.Brubeck's 1959 album has become a jazz standard.He received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996.

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21.Why did Andrew Zuckerman choose the fifty elders for his project?

A.Because their wisdom deserves to be passed on.           B.Because they are physically impressive.

C.Because their accomplishments inspired him.              D.Because they have similar experiences.

22.According to the web page,Federico Mayor Zaragoza       .

A.has won many awards for his work in politics                   B.has made achievements in different areas

C.has devoted all his life to the field of science                  D.has served as the president of a university

23.Who most probably said "My education has been the library and books" in the interview when reflecting on his/her experience?

A.Nadine Gordimer.                                   B.Federico Mayor Zaragoza.

C.Andrew Zuckerman.                                D.Dave Brubeck.

24.What is the main purpose of this web page'?

A.To show Zuckerman's awards.                                         B.To publicize Zuckerman's project.

C.To celebrate the achievements of the three people.              D.To spread the wisdom of the three people.

I was 17 and my job was to try to keep eight fairly active 10-,11- and 12-year-olds from killing one another or themselves.Among other activities,I would take them camping in the woods outside Dover Plains,New York.I learned that if you are going to be in the woods for a couple of days,take frosted food.You can eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner,you don't have to cook them and they don't weigh as much as your meats and vegetables.I'll never touch another frosted food as long as I live.

The camp was for low-income black lads from New York City.During the camp,I found being out in the woods with the kids was a little scary,because I suddenly realized these are actually somebody's children and I'm responsible for them.I found myself being an authority figure because I had to.

On a camping trip we stopped at a lake to put up our tents.I was the only white person in the group.We were swimming when these white kids in a motorboat began yelling racial abuses and trying to splash（泼水）us.Then I had no choice but to warn them,"If you come anywhere near these kids,we've written down the number of your boat and we're going to call the police."

They yelled more but finally left.That experience was the biggest test of responsibility I had ever faced.

When I returned to high school after that first summer,it seemed a lot less fearful than before.Plus,I had earned $375,which after trips to the camp candy store was down to eight cents' clear profit.

25.The author took along frosted food for the following reasons EXCEPT that       .

A.They were his favorite snacks                       B.They were easy to carry and eat

C.They filled the belly easily                         D.They wouldn't go bad in a couple of days 

26.What gave the author the best lesson of responsibility when they camped in the woods?

A.To teach 8 naughty kids to swim.             B.To.put up tents out in the wilds.

B.To stop the kids from bee stings.                     D.To protect his campers from abuses.

27.Which word may best conclude the camp trip?

A.Amusing.                              B.Profitable.                     C.Relaxing.                 D.Comfortable.

Almost no one can resist a good mystery novel or detective novel,so these novels sell thousands of copies each year.And many readers regard famous mystery author Agatha Christie as Queen of Crime,whose stories are known for their tense atmosphere and strong psychological suspense and have a great effect on the English mystery novels.

Christie was born in September 1890 in England,When she was growing up,her mother often told her stories. Christie loved these stories,which took her into a world of fantasy.Christie's mother also encouraged her to write from a young age and also took her to travel a lot.

She married Archie Christie in 1914 at the beginning of World War I,During the war,Christie wrote her first detective story: The Mysterious Affair at Styles.She chose the crime,and then invented a detective named Hercule Poirot,ranking second to Sherlock Holmes, to solve it.She sent the book to a publisher,but it was rejected.

After the war ended,Christie sent her book to more publishers,and finally,in 1920,one published it.She earned just $25 for it.Over the next few years,Christie wrote more books and short stories,gaining experience as a writer.In spite of her literary success,life was not.going well at home.In 1928, Archie and Agatha got a divorce.A short time later,she met a young archaeologist,Max Mallowan.After getting married in 1930, they began to spend some time each year in the Middle East,which provided settings for some of Christies novels,such as Murder at the Vicarage (1930),Murder on the Orient Express (1934) and Death on the Nile(1939).

Christie continued writing for the rest of her life.When she died in January 1976,readers around the world mourned her death.But her tales of mystery continue to be loved by new generations of readers.They've been translated into hundreds of languages and are selling well today and outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare in Britain.

28.As a whole,this text       .

A.is a biography of Agatha Christie                                       B.promotes Agatha Christie's novels

C.explains how Agatha Christie became a writer                          D.is a review of Agatha Christie's novels

29.What do we know about Hercule Poirot?

A.He was better known than Sherlock Holmes.                                B.He made Christie become famous.

C.He was good at catching criminals.                                      D.He was the only main character in the novel.

30.From the underlined.sentence "outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare in Britain",we can learn that       .

A.the Bible helps her works to sell in Britain                                     B.the sales of her works rank third in Britain

C.the works of Shakespeare don't sell better than hers in Britain  D.their sales are equally good in Britain

31.Which is the right order for what Agatha Christie experienced?

①She had her first detective novel published. 

②She finished The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

③Her mother encouraged her to write.

④Her marriage to Archie ended in divorce.

⑤She wrote Murder on the Orient Express.

A.③②④①⑤              B.③①②⑤④              C.②①③⑤④             D.③②①④⑤

A team of engineers at Harvard University has been inspired by Nature to create the first robotic fly.The mechanical fly has become a platform for a series of new high-tech integrated systems.Designed to do what a fly does naturally,the tiny machine is the size of a fat housefly.Its mini wings allow it to stay in the air and perform controlled flight tasks.

"It's extremely important for us to think about this as a whole system and not just the sum of a bunch of individual components,"said Robert Wood,the Harvard engineering professor who has been working on the robotic fly project for over a decade.A few years ago,his team got the go-ahead to start piecing together the components. "The added difficulty with a project like this is that actually none of those components are off the shelf and so we have to develop them all on our own,"he said.

They engineered a series of systems to start and drive the robotic fly."The seemingly simple system which just moves the wings has a number of interdependencies on the individual components,each of which individually has to perform well,but then has to be matched well to everything it's connected to,"said Wood.The flight device was built into a set of power,computation,sensing and control systems.Wood says the success of the project proves that the flying robot with these tiny components can be built and manufactured.

While this first robotic flyer is linked to a small,off-board power source,the goal is eventually to equip it with a built-in power source,so that is might someday perform data-gathering work at rescue sites,in farmers' fields or on the battlefield."Basically it should be able to take off,land and fly around,"he said.

Wood says the design offers a new way to study night mechanics and control at insect-scale.Yet,the power, sensing and computation technologies on board could have much broader applications."You can start thinking about using them to answer open scientific questions,you know,to study biology in ways that would be difficult with the animals,but using these robots instead,"he said."So there are a lot of technologies and open interesting scientific questions that are really what drives us on a day to day basis."

32.The difficulty the team of engineers met with while making the robotic fly was that       .

A.they had no model in their mind                        B.they did not have sufficient time

C.they had no ready-made components                      D.they could not assemble the components

33.It can be inferred from paragraphs 3 and 4 that the robotic fly       .

A.consists of a flight device and a control system              B.can just fly in limited areas at the present time

C.can collect information from many sources              D.has been put into wide application

34.Which of the following can be learned from the passage?

A.The robotic flyer is designed to learn about insects.       B.Animals are not allowed in biological experiments.

C.There used to be few ways to study how insects fly.       D.Wood's design can replace animals in some experiments.

35.Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?

A.Father of Robotic Fly                                       B.Inspiration from Engineering Science

C.Robotic Fly Imitates Real Life Insect                 D.Harvard Breaks Through in Insect Study

As your high school graduation rapidly approaches,you probably have more activities and events scheduled than you can keep up with.If you have a teacher who has influenced your high school career in a major way,don't let the school year end without thanking him or her for a job well done._36_.

Design a word puzzle that will amuse your favorite teacher.Does your teacher seem like the type who might enjoy word puzzles?_37_.Discovery Education,Armored Penguin and Helper are among the best sites for giving fresh word puzzles for your teacher.

Give your favorite teacher an autograph（亲笔签名）book with thank you notes from you and your classmates. Do you have a teacher that is so popular that the majority of students in your senior class like him or her?_38_. Although there are plenty of websites from which you can order an autograph book,a blank journal can serve the same purpose and can be purchased at your local bookstore.

Give your favorite teacher a customized（定制的）newspaper.If you are extremely creative student who is good with words,consider ordering a custom-designed newspaper for your teacher._39_It is sure to provide encouragement on those different days when nothing seems to be going well.

_40_Many teachers are used to giving award certificates to their students,but how many are used to receiving them from their students?Dare to be different by being the student who rewards teaching excellence with an award certificate in an official way that will be cherished by your favorite forever.For a quick,free,user-friendly certificate making experience that will result in eye-catching results,an excellent site to visit is 123 Certificates.com.

A.An autograph book with personal,handwritten thank you notes may be the perfect gift.

B.If so,why not surprise him or her with a special crossword or word search puzzle?

C.Do something nice for your favorite teacher every day during Teacher Appreciation Week.

D.Award your favorite teacher with a certificate of appreciation.

E.There are several "fab" ways to thank your favorite teacher for making such a huge difference in your life.

F.The PTA has numerous suggestions for recognizing Teacher Appreciation Week.

G.This is a unique gift that can be hung on your teacher's office wall for display.