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1、 电话：Part 1 Vocabulary 单词释义（每题2分，共20分）1. Involve _ 2. Be associated with _3. Subject_ 4. Priority _ 5. Cause_ 6. Generation _7. Poverty_ 8. Sophisticated _9. Breed_ 10.Feature _同义词连线（每题2分，共20分）11. Spot inaccessible 12. Surroundings keep 13. Constrain alter 14.Boost percentage 15.Assess enhance 16.Iso

2、late limit 17.Maintain estimate 18.Change rudimentary 19.Fundamental discover 20.Proportion environment Part 2 ReadingPassage one（每题3分，共15分）One example of self-medication was discovered in 1987. Michael Huffman and Mohamedi Seifu, working in the Mahale Mountains National Park in Tanzania, noticed th

3、at local chimpanzees suffering from intestinal worms would dose themselves with pith of a plant called Veronia. This plant produces poisonous chemicals called terpenes. Its pith contains a strong enough concentration to kill gut parasites, but not so strong as to kill chimps（nor people, for that mat

4、ter; locals use the pith for the same purpose）.Evidence for the detoxifying nature of clay came in 1999, from an experiment carried out on macaws by James Gilardi and his colleagues at the University of California, Davis, Macaws eat seeds containing alkaloids, a group of chemicals that has some noto

5、riously toxic members such as strychnine. In the wild, the birds are frequently seen perched on eroding riverbanks eating clay. In 1972 Richard Wrangham, a researcher at the Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania, noticed that chimpanzees were eating the leaves of a tree called Aspilla. The chimps chose t

6、he leaves carefully by testing them in their mouths. Having chosen a leaf, a chimp would fold it into a fan and swallow it. Some of the chimps were noticed wrinkling their noses as they swallowed these leaves, suggesting the experience was unpleasant. Later, undigested leaves were found on the fores

7、t floor.It was Dr Huffman who got to the bottom of the problem. He did so by watching what came out of the chimps, rather than concentrating on what went in. He found that the egested leaves were full of intestinal worms. The factor common to all 19 species of leaves swallowed by the chimps was that

8、 they were covered with microscopic hooks. These caught the worms and dragged them form their lodgings.Questions 21-25 Complete the notes below using NO MORE THAN ONE WORD OR NUMBER from the following paragraphs Write your answers in boxes 5-9 on your answer sheet.Date Name AnimalFoodMechanism1987Mi

9、chael Huffman and Mohanmedi SeifuChimpanzee21_of VeroniaContained chemicals,22_, that can kill parasites1999James Gilardi and his colleaguesMacawSeeds（contain23_）and clayClay can24_the poisonous contents in food1972Richard Wrang-hamLeaves with tiny 25_on surfaceSuch leaves can catch and expel worms

10、from intestinesPassage two（每题3分，共15分）Sometimes ideas just pop up out of the blue. Or in Charlie Patons case, out of the rain. “ I was in a bus in Morocco traveling through the desert,” he remembers. “It had been raining and the bus was full of hot, wet people. The windows steamed up and I went to sl

11、eep with a towel against the glass. When I woke, the thing was soaking wet. I had to wring it out. And it set me thinking. Why was it so wet?” The answer, of course, was condensation. Back home in London, a physicist friend, Philip Davies, explained that the glass, chilled by the rain outside, had c

12、ooled the hot humid air inside the bus below its dew point, causing droplets of water to form on the inside of the window. Intrigued, Paton-a lighting engineer by profession-started rigging up his own equipment. “I made my own solar stills. It occurred to me that you might be able to produce water i

13、n this way in the desert, simply by cooling the air. I wondered whether you could make enough to irrigate fields and grow crops.”Today, a decade on, his dream has taken shape as giant greenhouse on a desert island off Abu Dhabi in the Persian Gulf -the first commercially viable Version of his “seawa

14、ter greenhouse”. Questions 26-30Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 3?In boxes 27-31 on your answer sheet, write TRUE if the statement agrees with the information FALSE if the statement contradicts the information NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this 26. Paton came up with the idea of making water in desert by pure accident.27. the bus Paton rode in had poor ventilation because of broken fans.28. Paton woke up from sleep to di