r eats .
B)Eating from the outside toward the middle
C)Swallowing the pie with water D)Holding the pie in the right position
Passage Three
18. A) Beauty B)Loyalty C) Luck D) Durability
19. A) He wanted to follow the tradition of his country
B)He believed that it symbolized an everlasting marriage
C)It was thought a blood vessel in that finger led directly to the heart
D)It was supposed that the diamond on that finger would bring good luck
20. A) The two people can learn about each other’s likes and dislikes
B)The two people can have time to decide if they are a good match
C)The two people can have time to shop for their new home
D)The two people can earn enough money for their wedding
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Passage One
Is there enough oil beneath the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (保护区) (ANWR) to
help secure America’s energy future ? President Bush certainly thinks so . He
has argued that tapping ANWR’s oil would help ease California’s electricity
crisis and provide a major boost to the country’s energy independence . But no
one knows for sure how much crude oil lies buried beneath the frozen earth .
with the last government survey , conducted in 1998, projecting output anywhere
from 3 billion to 16 billion barrels .
The oil industry goes with the high end of the range , which could equal as much
as 10% of U.S. consumption for as long as six years . By pumping more than 1
million barrels a day from the reserve for the next two three decades, lobbyists
claim, the nation could cut back on imports equivalent to all shipments to the
U.S. from Saudi Arabia. Sounds good. An oil boom would also mean a
multibillion-dollar windfall（意外之财）in tax revenues, royalties(开采权使用费)and leasing
fees for Alaska and the Federal Government. Best of all , advocates of drilling
say , damage to the environment would be insignificant . “ We’ ve never had a
document case of oil rig chasing deer out onto the pack ice .” says Alaska State
Representative Scott Ogan .
Not so far , say environmentalists . Sticking to the low end of government
estimates , the National Resources Defense Council says there may be no more
than 3.2 billion barrels of economically recoverable oil in the coastal plain of
ANWR, a drop in the bucket that would do virtually nothing to ease America’s
energy problems . And consumers would wait up to a decade to gain any benefits ,
because drilling could begin only after much bargaining over leases ,
environmental permits and regulatory review . As for ANWR’s impact on the
California power crisis , environmentalists
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