1、t pass germs on to each other. _(3) What if youre in a play, for instance? Actors have been known to forget their lines because they couldnt stand the garlic smell on a fellow actors breath. Some have even made up new lines and actions that kept them far away from the one who had eaten garlic.Throug
2、h the years man has tried to cope with the smell of garlic. _(4) We now know why. Its been found that the oils of the garlic do not stick to the teeth, Garlic tongue, or gums (齿龈). They go into the lungs instead. From there they are breathed out. They pass out through the skin too.Strange as it seem
3、s, food may have a great deal of garlic in it without smelling or tasting strong. It all depends on how it is cooked. French cooks make a good soup with whole cloves (瓣) of garlic. They use more than thirty cloves in one bowl of soup. But they take care not to crush them. And they cook them whole. _
4、(5) And as the cloves cook they change in some strange way. The soup turns out to be delicious. Its not strong at all.ABut no medicine, mouthwash, chewing gum, or toothpaste seems to help muchBAs a result, the strong oils stay in the cloves.CThey say it may help in one way, though.DMany people eat g
5、arlic.EBut keeping your distance can be hard at times.FThey hoped it would keep away the evil eye.参考答案:46. F 47. C 48. E 49. A 50. BFemale BullfightingIt was a unique, eye-catching sight: an attractive, woman in a shiny bullfighters suit, sword in hand, facing the sharp horns of a black, 500-kilogra
6、m beast.Most people thought the days of female bullfighting were over in Spain_(46)The first woman fighter, Cristina Sanchez, quit in 1999 because of male discrimination (歧视)。 But Vega is determined to break into what could be Spains most resistant male field_(47)Spanish women have conquered almost
7、all male professions._(48) The bull does not ask for your identity card, she said in an interview a few years ago. She insisted that she be judged for her skills rather than her femaleness.Vega became a matador (斗牛士) in 1997 in the southwestern city of Caceres._(49)She entered a bullfighting school
8、in Malaga at age nine and performed her first major bullfight at age 14. She has faced as much opposition as Sanchez did. And the difficulties have made her grow into a very strong bullfighter, her brother Jorge says.The 1.68-metre tall and somewhat shy Vega says her love of bullfighting does not ma
9、ke her any less of a woman_(50)AShe intends to become even better than Sanchez was.BHer father was an aspiring (有雄心壮志的) bullfighter.CBut many bullfighting professionals continue to insist that women do not have hat it takes to perform the countrys national show.D Im a woman from head to toe and prou
10、d of it, she once saidEShe looks like a male bullfighter.FBut recently,29-year-old Mari Paz Vega became the second woman in Spanish history to fight against those heavy animals.答案:46 F 47 A 48 C 49 B 50 DLooking to the FutureWhen a magazine for high-school students asked its readers what life would
11、be like in twenty years, they said: Machines would be run by solar power. Buildings would rotate so they could follow the sun to take maximum advantage of its light and heat. Walls would “radiate light” and “change color with the push of a button.”Food would be replaced by pills. School would be tau
12、ght “by electrical impulse while we sleep.”Cars would have radar. Does this sound like the year 2000?Actually, 46 and the question was, “what will life be like in 1978?”The future is much too important to simply guess about, the way the high school students did, so experts are regularly asked to pre
13、dict accurately. By carefully studying the present skilled businessmen, scientists, and politicians are supposedly able to figure out in advance what will happen. But can they? One expert on cities wrote: 47 , but would have space for farms and fields. People would travel to work in “airbuses”, larg
14、e all-weather helicopters carrying up to 200 passengers. When a person left the airbus station he could drive a coin-operated car equipped with radar. The radar equipment of cars would make traffic accidents “almost unheard of”. Does that sound familiar? If the expert had been accurate it would, bec
15、ause he was writing in 1957.His subject was “The city of 1982.”If the professionals sometimes sound like high-school students, its probably because 48 . But economic forecasting, or predicting what the economy will do, has been around for a long time. It should be accurate, and generally it is. But
16、there have been some big mistakes in this field, too. In early 1929, most forecasters saw an excellent future for the stock market. In October of that year, 49 ,ruining thousands of investors who had put their faith in financial foreseers.One forecaster knew that predictions about the future would a
17、lways be subject to significant errors. In 1957,H.J.Rand of the Rand Corporation was asked about the year 2000, “Only one thing is certain,” he answered. “Children born today 50 .”A the stock market had its worst losses everB will have reached the age of 43 9C the article was written in 1958D Cities
18、 of the future would not be crowdedE the prediction of the future is generally accurateF future study is still a new fieldCDFABKeep the Trolls(小人) Away from Your GoalsThere is a type of crab that cannot be caught it is agile and clever enough to get out of any crab trap. (46)The trap is a wire cage
19、with a hole at the top. Bait is placed in the cage, and the cage is lowered into the water. (47) A second crab joins him. A third. Crab Thanksgiving. Eventually, however, all the bait is gone.The crabs could easily climb up the side of the cage and through the hole, but they do not. They stay in the
20、 cage. (48)And more.Should one of the crabs realize there is no further reason to stay in the trap and attempts to leave, the other crabs will gang up on him and stop him. They will repeatedly pull him off the side of the cage. (49)If he persists still, they will kill him.The crabs-by force of the m
21、ajority-stay together in the cage. The cage is hauled up, and its dinnertime on the pier. The chief difference between these crabs and humans is that these crabs live in water and humans on land.Anyone who has a dream - one that might get them out of what they perceive to be a trap-had best beware o
22、f the fellow-inhabitants of the trap.The human crabs (we call them trolls) do not usually use physical force-although they are certainly not above it. (50) They have more effective methods at hand, and in mouth-doubt, ridicule, sarcasm, humiliation, and dozen others not listed in our dictionary. The
23、 point is to manage to keep the trolls away from your goals.A.And yet, these crabs are caught by the thousands every day, thanks to a particular human trait they possess.B. Other crabs come along and join them long after the bait is gone.C. One crab comes along, enters the cage, and begins munching
24、on the bait.D. They tried their best to get out of the cage with the baitE. They generally dont need it, however. F If he is persistent, the others will tear off his claws to keep him from climbing. F If he is persistent, the others will tear off his claws to keep him from climbing.正确答案:ACBFEThe Wor
25、lds Longest BridgeRumor has it that1 a legendary six-headed monster lurks in the deep waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea between Italy and the island of Sicily. 1 When completed in 2010, the worlds longest bridge will weigh nearly 300,000 tons equivalent to the iceberg that sank the Titanic and stretch 5
26、kilomerers long. “thats nearly 50 percent longer than any other bridge ever built,” says structural engineer Shane Rixon.2 Theyre suspension bridges, massive structures built to span vast water channels or gorges. A suspension bridge needs just two towers to shoulder the structures mammoth weight, t
27、hanks to hefty supporting cables slung between the towers and anchored firmly in deep pools of cement at each end of the bridge. The Messina Strait Bridge will have two 54,00-ton towers, which will support most of the bridges load. The beefy cables of the bridge, each 1.2 meter in diameter, will hol
28、d up the longest and widest bridge deck ever built. When construction begins on the Messina Strait Bridge in 2005, the first job will be to erect two 370 meter-tall steel towers. 3 Getting these cables up will be something2. Its not just their length totally 5.3 kilometers but their weight. 4After l
29、owering vertical “suspender” cables from the main cables, builders will erect a 60meter-wide 54,630-ton steel roadway, or deck wide enough to accommodate 12 lanes of traffic. The decks weight will pull down on the cables with a force of 70,500 tons. In return, the cables yank up against their firmly
30、 rooted anchors with a force of 139,000 tons equivalent to the weight of about 100,000 cars. Those anchors are essential. 5A Some environmentalists are against the project on biological grounds.B What do the worlds longest bridges have in common?C If true, one day you might spy the beast while zipping (呼啸而过) across the Messina Strait Bridge.D Theyre what will keep
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